Sentence by sentence. Insult by insult. Schtick by schtick.
And people in California with large platforms –– including the governor, other politicians, celebrities, and “comedians” –– need to tone it down, in the wake of the latest assassination attempt against President Trump.
While we don’t blame speech for the violent acts of deranged individuals, leftist language in California (and beyond) does create a climate in which such acts become more likely.
Members of this Trump-hating crew in California –– in Hollywood and in politics –– might be competing to out-extreme one another.
They blast, they smirk, they “joke,” they denigrate the president in terms that would make a demon blush.
They call him fascist and Nazi and worse, comparing him with a regime that killed 6 million Jews in a genocide, and didn’t stop there.
It’s all absurd, over the top, ghoulish, and dangerous.
Jimmy Kimmel, a Los Angeles talk show host, last week “joked” –– in the run-up to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner –– that the gorgeous Melania Trump had the glow “of an expectant widow.”
The first lady rightly excoriated Kimmel for his remarks.
On Monday, after a shooter targeting Trump and his team disrupted that same dinner, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of the California governor, assailed Trump as misogynist for shutting down a female reporter who earnestly quoted the alleged shooter’s (lunatic) manifesto to the president in an interview.
Siebel Newsom’s husband, Gov. Gavin Newsom, has an entire lowlight reel of Trump insults, including lambasting the president on foreign soil twice this year in self-serving jaunts to Davos and Munich.
Newsom also called Trump a “deranged, habitual liar” after the feds uncovered rampant fraud in California.
Meanwhile, Hollywood actress Elizabeth Banks told a podcaster this month that “I wish more of us were becoming revolutionaries” to fight against Trump’s (in her warped view) fascism.
3 Jimmy Kimmel “joked” that Melania Trump had the glow “of an expectant widow.” Then there’s Rep. Ted Lieu, a Democrat who represents part of western LA County, who, as we noted this week, endlessly promotes the charge that the president raped kids –– with zero evidence.
There’s also Rep. Maxine Waters, a Democrat whose district is centered in southern LA County. Remember her infamous 2018 exhortation to harass those in Trump’s orbit?
“If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
And of course, who can forget LA “comedian” Kathy Griffin’s stunt in 2017? She posed clutching a faux severed head of Donald Trump.
These (and other) insults and suggestions and implications and allusions to violence have helped bring us to where we are today.
The left has has steadily ramped up the rhetoric –– insult by (unhinged) insult –– since Trump’s first election in 2016.
If left unchecked, we don’t want to see where it goes next.
What’s after “jokes” about assassinations, ad hominem attacks on the daily, calls for harassment and revolution, and severed heads?
Let’s try this instead: Civility. Decorum. Restraint. And basic decency.
“Everybody Loves Raymond” star Patricia Heaton, formerly of LA but now of Nashville due in large part to California’s crime, homelessness, and onerous cost of living, put it well after Saturday’s shooting:
“I wasn’t happy when Clinton, Obama or Biden won, but I didn’t call them fascist/dangerous/threat to democracy. I didn’t hope someone would assassinate them. I went on with my life with gratitude. Friends on the left, please try this. Your life and our country will be better.”
Yes. The Trump-hating jeerleaders in California should listen.
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