Democrats and the media brought Trump Derangement Syndrome to a fever pitch. Now it's drawn blood

 Here is a summation of reality - pull your heads out of your liberal asses and learn something -- After 2016, Democrats invested their money, time, energy, and media ties into an effort to trash Trump’s presidency and thwart his bid for a second term - what we do not need to speculate about is the climate created and cultivated by Donald Trump’s political enemies. America is polarized, toxic, and politically close to a breaking point in part because the country’s liberal political, cultural, and media elite never accepted Trump’s legitimacy as the country’s president. - The very same leaders of the Democratic Party, along with a cohort of the Republican Party who labeled themselves Never Trumpers, and a swathe of what was once the mainstream media, crossed the line of political and public decency by framing Donald Trump as a monster and his supporters (roughly half the nation) as monster-worshipping deplorables ready to hand our democratic republic to a dictator. -For years, they have proclaimed Trump to be a danger to democracy and demonized his voters as witting or unwitting fascists. The May 16 edition of the once-revered New Republic depicted Trump as Hitler on its front cover. -The argument that Trump posed a Hitler-level threat to American democracy can be traced back to the first outbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome among left-leaning journalists in 2016. What made the argument so malignant was that it justified using all means possible to disrupt Trump’s presidency and to prevent his re-election. -Hillary Clinton formally conceded her loss to Trump in 2016. But the Democratic Party inwardly denied the legitimacy of his victory. What followed that concession speech was a sustained campaign of scheming to undermine the 45th President. There were calls to change the electoral system on the grounds that Clinton had won more of the actual votes cast; the pseudo-feminist Women’s March; the invention of the "collusion with Russia" hoax; the invocation of the 25th Amendment; the spurious claim that Trump attempted a coup on January 6, 2021; and, most recently, the carefully orchestrated abuse of the civil and criminal systems to wage "lawfare" against his candidacy in 2024. -after 2016, the Democrats invested their money, time, energy, and media ties into an effort to trash Trump’s presidency and thwart his bid for a second term. It seemed to work. They won the 2020 election. - But after 2020 the Democrats did not settle down to govern and bring a divided nation together. Under the stewardship of an elderly and superficially moderate president, they continued to wage rhetorical and legal jihad against former president Trump. Just before the midterms in 2022, President Biden and his team decided to gin up the psychodrama in their circles with the so-called "battle for the soul of the nation" speech. Millions of ordinary Americans who had voted for Trump in the past and might vote for him in the future were told that they "threatened the very foundations of the nation." - The two years since that speech were spent on insisting that under no circumstances would a Trump election victory be acceptable. The lawfare and media campaign against him intensified. The calculation became that if Trump could be convicted of a crime (any crime) and labeled a felon, the Democratic incumbent would win the election. Sure enough, a court in New York found Trump guilty of all 34 crimes he was charged with in a case that legal experts admitted would never have been brought against anyone who was not Donald Trump. In other words, 34 strands of spaghetti were thrown at him and all 34 stuck. - All the while, the Democrats and their media surrogates overlooked the reality that their incumbent and intended nominee was too old and cognitively impaired to win the general election, while his Vice President, the most prominent DEI hire in the country, was too talentless to do any better. With less than four months to go until the election, the Democrats are in the grip of an internal power struggle of their own making. Now the attempted assassination of Trump almost certainly dooms them to defeat, whether they nominate Biden, Harris or some other candidate. - A great many people who wished Donald Trump ill over the past eight years also dodged a metaphorical bullet on Saturday night. Had Trump been killed, his death would have been on the consciences of everyone who ever called him Hitler. I shudder to imagine the political aftermath of such a nightmarish event. The advice I would give them all as they prepare for their party’s likely defeat on November 5 is simple: This time, do the right thing after you lose. Instead of demonizing the guy who beat you, take a long hard look in the mirror and ask yourselves this simple question: Was this result what we deserved for four years of failed policies on immigration, inflation, and national security – and for eight years of smearing Donald Trump as a Nazi? -https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-media-brought-trump-derangement-syndrome-to-fever-pitch-drawn-blood

I have a liberal head (and presumably a liberal ass), but on the details of reality and the general tying together of the storylines, I more or less agree with you.

The problem, in a nutshell, is that the left has become so off the rails, ostensibly as a response to perceived and potential right-wing fascism, that it has gone off the cliff and circled around to become what it ostensibly fears -- fascism. The degree of censorship has been the tip-off. Call the Repubs what you want -- crooks, bullies, flag-waving pseudo-religious hypocrites -- but they are not into censorship. And freedom of speech, to me, is the foundation of a free and liberal society. Of course, as an old journalism major, I'm biased that way.

The left has become the party of censorship, which means my "left of Marx" status now qualifies me as "on the extreme right."

And I haven't changed a whit.

Strange times. You know, when Bill Maher and James Carville are rolling their eyes at current Democratic policies and leadership, it may be time for a vigorous third party. Because the current Dems are not just irreligious; they are anti-cultural.

  The truth does not need an alibi or excuses - the truth is the truth.

Whatever side we are on after attempt on Trumps Life.His likelihood 

of winning is locked in. So we have to try and get along.Suppoert our

country.

  Whether President Trump was/is "locked in" isn't the main reason for what I posted. My post alludes to the criminal tactics employed by both the DemocRats and the lying leftist media. They will never stop - as seen by their brainwashing of the gullible. The real reason they do what they do is because, as President Trump alluded to, they are coming after YOU and I, - Trump is just in the way. Wake up America, we are under siege from within. These corrupt DemocRats do not care about America or Americans - they are in it for themselves and the power and financial gain they can and have accrued. - they are a bunch of thieves, better known as the Swamp.