OPINION:
MILWAUKEE — If stress reveals the true nature of an individual, Donald Trump is the unrivaled leader of the free world.
With bullets flying, and security detail rushing, a bloodied Trump ultimately rose from an assassination attempt to raise a clenched fist in the air and mouth, to a shocked crowd, “fight, fight, fight.”
Could you imagine Joe Biden doing the same?
This is America’s most important presidential election in modern history. It’s not simply about the man. It’s about the spirit. Americans need to decide this November if it’s to be demonic forces or godly forces that guide, going forward, for the foreseeable future..
“The Democrats have to stop their grossly irresponsible talk about Trump being an existential threat to democracy. He is not,” said Bill Barr, former attorney general of the United States, on social media.
Then came The Washington Post, swinging hard to defend the Democrats with this headline: “Trump allies immediately blame Biden, Democrats for their rhetoric.”
Well, Democrats have called for an unleashing of whirlwinds and a summer of resistance and a protest gaggle to get them — MAGA, Trump supporters, conservatives — at their homes, at their places of work, at their places of dining. Democrats in high places of political offices have degraded their titles and mocked their public service by using their platforms and considerable media coverage to press anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, anti-America, anti-police, anti-law-and-order narratives, and worse, to suggest that violence, while ugly, is also sometimes necessary.
“We’re going to impeach the motherf—,” screamed Rep. Rashida Tlaib, during a speech she delivered in part about Trump just hours after she was sworn into office in 2019.
“Maxine Waters encourages supporters to harass Trump administration officials,” CNN wrote in a headline in June 2018. And harass they did. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, then-White House press secretary, was asked by a restaurant owner to leave the establishment because of her affiliation with Trump. Sen. Rand Paul and his wife were threatened by a mob of angry Republican National Convention protesters in 2020.
All that’s lawful.
All that’s orderly.
These are the things the Democrats detest.
“We got to stay in the street. And we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business,” said Rep. Maxine Waters in April of 2021, at the height of national tensions in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd.
“I want to tell you [Neil] Gorsuch. I want to tell you [Brett] Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,” Sen. Chuck Schumer shouted at a 2020 presser, while expressing outrage over the Supreme Court’s handling of abortion.
Taken by themselves, they angry outbursts are perhaps meaningless.
Put them all together and they’re drumbeat calls for violence.
This has been the ways and means of Democrats for years now — from CHAZ operations in Seattle that saw unruly and armed thugs setting up perimeters on city streets to keep out citizens and keep out police, to Black Lives Matter and antifa types tossing their Molotov cocktails and bricks and rocks — and then having invites to the White House to meet with the president, as if their voices were sane. Rewarding wickedness never ends well.
“Obama on Black Lives Matter: they are ‘much better organizers than I was,’” ran one headline in The Guardian in 2016. The news outlet went on to write, “Activists meet with president at White House to discuss efforts to reform the US criminal justice system.” Why are these people given such a platform?
Why would violent offenders and lawbreakers have a place to speak on law and order in a White House setting?
All this, and more — much, much more — and over the span of many years, not surprisingly leads to an atmosphere of discontent and division, discord and angry jealousy, and all that is then channeled, by the exploiters in the Democrat Party who are actually Marxists at heart, to drive protests, outbursts, leftist movements and chaotic confrontations in the streets. This is the way of communists who are trying to subvert a system and set up a collectivist government; they use those of limited thinking skills and ratchet emotions to the point of boiling. Then they stand back and watch as the violence unfolds and pretend they are shocked and horrified — that peace, peace! is their only aim and goal.
MAGAs have been warning for years the lunatic left will one day bring about an assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
That day came July 13.
But by July 14, the nation and world saw just how futile is the leftist, globalist, collectivist-driven move to shut down freedom in America.
“Fight,” Trump mouthed, just seconds after bullets almost killed him.
“Fight,” Trump mouthed, raising his fist and while blood dripped down his cheek.
“Fight,” Trump mouthed, while security officials tried to usher him from the stage and into the safety of the presidential SUV.
Tragedy always offers opportunity for the best in humanity to shine.
Robert McGee was an American frontier hero who was scalped by Sioux Indians in the summer of 1864. He miraculously survived, and The Good Men Project writes he later said: “True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure — the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character’s essential nature.”
So think hard on that this November.
When Biden faces pressure — from a press conference, from a presidential debate, from the calls of party officials to prove he’s healthy enough in mind and body to stay in the Oval Office another four years — he gets confused, petty, angry, confused, wandering, confused.
When Trump faces pressure — the ultimate pressure; the one where a secret enemy shoots bullets at your head and tries to blow you away?
He rises from the muddle of security officials who rushed to shield his body from the bullets of a would-be assassin, raises a clenched fist, and mouths to a shocked crowd, “fight, fight, fight.”
That type of character can’t be faked.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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