Trump, Political Violence, & the Total State

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This year’s election has already featured political violence. Haitian migrants running amok in Springfield, Ohio is part of that arsenal of weapons the establishment is using. Over the last nine years, different types of political violence have occurred in the United States. In the run up to the 2016 election, Antifa rioters were doing their utmost to intimidate white citizens attending Trump rallies, Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa thugs set cities from coast to coast on fire in 2020, this year in 2024 we have outright assassination attempts, bomb threats, criminal gangs, and countless other immigrants being used as weapons.

Academic Dirk Schumann defines political violence as,

the exercise of physical coercion that essentially takes place collectively, can be aimed at both objects as well as individuals or groups, and whose actors, seek — by selecting a specific target — to simultaneously strike a blow against the political system as a whole or against a political concept regarded as hostile.[1]

Operant conditioning and desensitizing soldiers to kill is an important part of military training in the modern age. The dehumanization of enemies is an important step in the desensitization process.[2] The democratic party and their allied mainstream media outlets have dehumanized Donald Trump in hopes of fomenting such violence. It always remains a possibility that these would-be assassins are wound up and set loose by whatever alphabet agency you can think of. Even if they are not supported by shadowy state agencies, the ceaseless and all-pervasive mainstream media (MSM) psychological warfare campaign against the 45th president is bound to motivate crazies.

In his book, The Total State, Auron MacIntyre makes the argument that the progressive Left in power feel that any actions that they take to overcome the systematic oppression of white majority rule — or whatever other justification they feel like drudging up — are justified. Whether those actions are legal or not makes no difference to them. MacIntyre writes:

Progressives think their supporters can and should have rights that exceed those of their opponents. Women, Blacks, Hispanics, and LGTBQ have all been brutally oppressed for centuries. Additional rights are required to combat the hatred and inequality carefully layered into the system by their oppressors . . .

The ability to riot or celebrate in the streets during a pandemic while your political opponents sit locked in their homes is simply an extension of that previously established hierarchy. Those who support the progressive regime are better people. They have historical wrongs to right. They need to go about the work of social justice no matter what the emergency. Their cause is more important . . .[3]

The Left, by extension, believes that using ceaseless propaganda and physical violence to achieve their political aims is more than justifiable.

Another Assassination Attempt

After another attempt on his life, Donald Trump issued a statement to reassure everyone that he was unscathed: “There were gunshots in my vicinity, but before rumors start spiraling out of control, I wanted you to hear this first: I am safe and well!”

Despite repeated attempts to kill him, Trump has vowed to continue: “These encounters with death have not broken my will, they have given me a much bigger and stronger mission. They’ve only hardened my resolve to use my time on Earth to Make America Great Again. . .”

Ryan Wesley Routh, the alleged shooter, had a Biden-Harris sticker on his truck. He was known to frequently post about politics online and even wrote a book, which is a self-published ranting mess entitled “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War”. In the work, Routh was addressing Iran when he wrote “You are free to assassinate Trump.” Moreover, Routh presented his arguments about a whole host of other subjects. According to a cited source in this Revolver article the book can be summarized as follows:

Would-be Trump shooter Ryan Routh has published a 291-page book, “Unwinnable War,” about his time in Ukraine’s Int’l Legion.

Routh says he’d like to see Putin assassinated, seems to hope for Trump’s assassination as well, and calls for the US to “instigate” a nuclear war with Russia.

Stating he’s neither a Democrat or Republican, Routh’s clearly articulated mindset toward Russia mirrors that of Beltway hardliners. He offers gushing admiration for Juan Guaido, the Free Syrian Army, Myanmar rebels, and other CIA backed forces, while hinting at a friendship with MSNBC natsec hack and fellow International Brigade member Malcolm Nance.

One journalist for Semafor said that Routh was crazy after she conducted an interview with him in 2023. Routh was attempting to facilitate the recruitment of American mercenaries for the war in Ukraine. During that interview Routh voiced his frustrations. Although he is insane, it is a possibility, of course, that he was aided and abetted by government forces. His hawkish stance vis-à-vis Russia is a mirror image of the warmongering hawks of the beltway.

When she encountered him in Kyiv in 2022, a nurse named Chelsea Walsh was concerned with Routh’s mental instability. Walsh characterized Routh as someone with predatory behavior, antisocial traits, and was disturbed by his threats of violence. The nurse relayed her concerns to a Customs and Border Protection officer during a lengthy interview at Dulles airport in Washington in 2022.

Donald Trump had this to say about the current milieu in a lengthy post on X/Twitter:

The Rhetoric, Lies, as exemplified by the false statements made by Comrade Kamala Harris during the rigged and highly partisan ABC Debate, and all of the ridiculous lawsuits specifically designed to inflict damage on Joe’s, then Kamala’s, Political Opponent, ME, has taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust. Because of this Communist Left Rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse!

A survey of 1000 Registered Voters conducted by Scott Rasmussen and RMG Research on behalf of Napolitan News Service revealed just how radical many voters have become. “It is hard to imagine a greater threat to democracy than expressing a desire to have your political opponent murdered,” Rassmussen said when addressing the poll’s findings. In response to the question “While it is always difficult to wish ill of another human being, would America be better off if Donald Trump had been killed last weekend?” it turns out that 28% of Democrat respondents felt that America would be better off if Trump had been killed.

Furthermore, “Forty-nine percent (49%) of Democrats think it’s at least somewhat likely that Trump himself or the Trump campaign was involved with the assassination attempt, with 21% saying it was very likely. Fifty-two percent (52%) of Republicans think it’s at least somewhat likely that the Democratic Party or the Harris campaign was involved, with 28% saying it’s very likely.”

While shocking, it is not surprising that portions of the electorate have become radicalized by almost a decade of vicious mainstream media and Democratic Party vitriol aimed at Trump. His campaign recently released a compilation of some of the most egregious quotes from anti-Trump partisans in the Democratic party and the press. Many of them allude to acts of violence and assassination in addition to calling him an existential threat. Here are a few examples:

• Kamala Harris — repeatedly: “Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
• Kamala Harris: “Does one of us have to come out alive? Ha ha ha ha!”
• Joe Biden: “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
• Joe Biden: “I mean this from the bottom of my heart: Trump is a threat to this nation.”
• Joe Biden: “There is one existential threat: it’s Donald Trump.”
• Joe Biden: “Trump is a genuine threat to this nation … He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.”
• Joe Biden: “Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic … and that is a threat to this country.”
• Tim Walz: “Are [Republicans] a threat to democracy? Yes. … Are they going to put peoples’ lives in danger? Yes.”
• Nancy Pelosi: “[Trump] is a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen.”
• Dan Goldman: “He is destructive to our democracy and … he has to be eliminated.”
• Steve Cohen: “Trump is an enemy of the United States.”
• Maxine Waters: “Are [Trump supporters] preparing a civil war against us?”
• Gregory Meeks: “Trump cannot be president again. He’s an existential threat to democracy.”

The foregoing was just a small sample of the fiery rhetoric coming from the Democrats. Please feel free to have a look at the complete list for yourself, which includes a whole litany of similar quotes from journalists and allied media shills.

The notion that Trump is an existential threat to the Leftist liberal order who needs to be eliminated in order to defeat white supremacy is a radical notion reminiscent of justifications employed by the Leftist and heavily Jewish Weatherman movement of the 1960s. In his journal article about the Weatherman political movement, Karl Nemmersdorf explores the radicalization of the organization that culminated in their use and attempted use of violence to bring about the fall of the American government.[4] The Democrats have undoubtedly incorporated that radicalism into their world view.

At a recent Trump rally in New York City, on September 18, 2024, Haitian thugs attempted to intimidate and brawl with attendees outside the venue. Despite the open violence, Nassau Coliseum was a packed house with massive crowds seen outside the venue and lining the streets. The Democrats are up to their old tricks again in an attempt to incite physical confrontations with Trump supporters. An excellent video report by James O’Keefe in 2016 exposed how comprehensive and coordinated efforts to disrupt Trump rallies were linked to the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The undercover footage of some of the key facilitators of these organizations bragged about inciting violence and paying mentally unstable homeless people and their ilk to cause mayhem in process called bird-dogging.

One of the striking things about the last nine years is Trump’s breaking of the uniparty consensus. The uniparty being the unspoken alliance between establishment Democrats and Republicans. In that way he was very significant. As Greg Johnson writes, Trump broke the uniparty gentlemen’s agreement about mass immigration and other populist concerns. In a previous piece I speak to this point:

His willingness to address the most forbidden subjects in American political culture precipitated his success. Greg Johnson points out that Trump broke several taboos, including the “Republican gentlemen’s agreement to never broach populist measures like immigration restriction and protectionism.” Secondly, he helped “reorient political debate” away from the perfunctory Republican-versus-Democrat dichotomy and toward “nationalism and populism versus globalism and elitism.” Moreover, he “triggered the Left to drop the mask of sanity.”[5]

Just as America has experienced an acute uptick in political violence with the advent of Trump populism — a populism that has brought about the most effective challenge to one-party rule in the United States — Mexico experienced an explosion of conflict from 2006 onward. In Mexico after the transition from one-party rule to multi-party democracy, inter-cartel and state-cartel conflict proliferated, which included the killing of political figures at every level.[6] Similarly, in the United States, as the one-party establishment felt threatened that their monopoly would be replaced by Trump populism, it has resorted a whole arsenal of weapons including outright assignation attempts, the use of non-state violent organizations like Antifa and BLM, and mass immigration to try to re-exert control.

One of the hallmarks of a country descending further into the abyss is the normalization of political violence. Assassination attempts, voter repression, street fighting, murder, importing mass voting blocks: these are not the characteristics of a functioning democratic state. Ironically, the Democratic party is going to use every weapon at their disposal until they gain permanent electoral hegemony and establish the total Leftist state.

Notes

[1] Dirk Schumann, Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933: Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War, trans. Thomas Dunlap (New York: Berghahn Books, 2009), xvii.

[2] Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2009), 254-255.

[3] Auron MacIntyre, The Total State: how liberal democracies become tyrannies (New York: Regnery, 2024), 32-33.

[4] Please see Karl Nemmersdorf, “Ted Gold and the Jews of Weatherman,” The Occidental Quarterly 18, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 35-47.

[5] See also Greg Johnson, “Why White Nationalists Like Andrew Yang,” in The Year America Died, 48-49.

[6] Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley, Votes, Drugs, and Violence: the political logic of criminal wars in Mexico (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2020), xv,1-8.