Aftermath of Trump’s assassination attempt: Republicans’ blindspot exposed

After the failed assassination of Donald Trump there was no shortage of political sermonizing and benign rhetoric calling for nonviolence and peaceful coexistence between the two major parties as though “turning down the rhetoric” was some kind of bipartisan quandary. In the immediate wake of the assassin’s attempt on the life of the insurrectionist-in-chief, Trump’s vice president pick, JD Vance, posted on X that Joe Biden’s campaigning rhetoric had “led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.” The 39-year-old rookie senator representing Ohio for the past 18 months certainly is no exception to the toning down of the toxic rhetoric characteristic of the Trumpian MAGA party. According to Vanity Fair, Haley further maintained that Trump was “unhinged,” “diminished,” “mentally unfit” and that he needed to take a “cognitive test.” On top of Trump “not being qualified” this time around, she pointed out that he was a “sexual abuser” who could not “win a general election.” Then, the first and only woman governor of South Carolina concluded that making Trump the Republican Party’s nominee for president would be “suicide for our country.” Having come home to roost so she will hopefully have a political future, Haley told Republicansvoters that she and Trump agreed on keeping America safe from the Democrats who have “moved so far to the left that they’re putting our freedoms in danger.” And “for the sake of our nation, we have to go with Donald Trump” because a unified GOP is essential for saving our country. The speaker, who was unknown at the time, rounded up 146 of his House Republican colleagues who all refused to certify Joe Biden as president simply because they did not like the outcome of what Trump’s “fixer” and Attorney General William Barr, election officials in each of the 50 states, and Federal agencies overseeing election integrity have asserted was the most secure presidential election in U.S. history. For those that may not know, like so many Republican leaders Vance not too long ago was a Never Trumper who had referred to former president Trump as “America’s Hitler” before he was born again.