Like all of America, I was shocked to hear about the attempted execution of former President Donald Trump—although, however, not surprised. Never since George W. Bush have we seen such cruel, cruel speech aimed at a Republican applicant:” an philosophical threat to democracy”,” a dictator”,” a fascist”, and a present” Adolph Hitler”, according to outlets like The New Republic and Vox.
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Through a wonder, Donald Trump turned his head a split second before he was shot, saving his life, although two additional fans, David Dutch and James Copenhaver, were thoroughly wounded, and fire Corey Comperatore was killed. We pray for the timely recovery of Dutch and Copenhaver, and we extend our sympathy and compassion to their livid people. I’m not supposed to be here, so I’m not supposed to be, because, as Trump claimed in an interview, there are only one-tenth of 1 % of the chance of him turning his head just the right way at the right moment.
The attempted assassination of Trump and the miraculous revelation of his life resemble the next day one attempted to assassinate a former leader who was running for another term. It occurred in Milwaukee, the town where Donald Trump will be running for president on Sunday.
Before the 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, limited a leader to two words, former president Theodore Roosevelt was present in the town on October 14, 1912 as the Progressive Party’s candidate for a second term. Roosevelt had no Secret Service protection. Although the Secret Service granted presidents like Roosevelt shelter in 1901 following the death of William McKinley, just for a short period of time.
As Nathaniel Miller recounts in his 1992 memoir,” Theodore Roosevelt – A Life”, Roosevelt had just left the Gilpatrick Hotel, then the page of the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee. He was standing in an open car on his way to a rally to supply his talk when he was shot in the chest by a person in the group, John Schrank,” an anti-third word fanatic”, from only 30 feet apart. Later, Roosevelt claimed that despite being kicked by a mule, he was saved by a seemingly miraculous miracle despite the fact that he had previously said it felt like he had been.
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The bullet” tore through his overcoat, steel spectacles case, and the folded]50-page ] manuscript of his speech”, which were squeezed into his right jacket pocket, before lodging in his ribs. Despite the perplexing wound and bloody shirt, Roosevelt vowed to attend the rally and deliver his address before receiving treatment. He told the audience that the lengthy manuscript probably saved him from having the bullet enter his heart while he held up his speech, which had a bullet hole ripped through the middle of it.
According to Miller, TR spoke for an hour and a half, “waving off repeated appeals for him to stop and seek medical treatment.” Roosevelt told the audience that “it takes more than that to kill a bull moose” when he pointed to the bullet hole in his book.
Trump also showed similar defiance after being shot, raising his fist in defiance of the shooter and demanding that he leave the stage and not be carried off. According to Byron York of the Washington Examiner, who spoke with Trump on his plane, it appeared to him that Trump “actually wanted to return to the microphone to continue speaking” after watching the video. Trump told York,” I wanted to keep speaking, but I just got shot”, adding:” It was a very surreal experience, and you never know what you’re going to do until a thing like that happens”.
President Joe Biden said in his prime-time address to the nation on Sunday that” we must never descend into violence” and that there is” no place in America for this kind of violence.” He urged Americans to “lower the temperature” in the political battles in which we are engaged.
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Biden is certainly right. However, he and his political and media allies ought to reflect. It’s one thing to have a serious, vigorous debate about substantive political, cultural, and social issues and outline your disagreement with what others think about those issues. But it is at the height of irresponsibility to refer to your foes as evil, existential threats to democracy, fascists, or a new dictator or new dictator simply because they disagree with you. These are the kinds of repugnant personal attacks and careless, infuriating rhetoric that Biden is now suddenly preaching against.
Before he commands the rest of us to behave, he needs to organize his own home.
