Trump has never understood that when you play with fire, you’re sure to get burned.
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 11th, 2024
Elon Musk was confused. When a few individuals with political ties to Donald Trump or conservative movements tried to assassinate his friend Donald Trump, he posted – then deleted – a post asking why “no one is even trying to assassinate” either President Joe Biden or the Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.
The reason no one has tried to assassinate Kamala Harris or Joe Biden – or any other presidential candidate – is that they do not go out of their way to attract unstable people with a penchant for violence.
If you attract a wild animal, you can’t be terribly surprised if that animal suddenly attacks you – it is by its nature unpredictable. Working to attract angry, sometimes unstable people with a love of violent activity is a sure way to be attacked by that unpredictable penchant for assault.
Trump has spent his entire political career appealing to the outsider – that’s one of his few good political qualities. The problem is that his shamelessness also encourages him to appeal to individuals who see violence as a happy solution to all of life’s problems.
Such people easily turn on their friends, their lovers … their politicians.
All they need is an impetus, something that politician does or says that they cannot accept … and the fuse is set. Take Ryan Wesley Routh, a former Trump supporter who turned against him over Trump’s stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine. Routh was arrested after committing what the FBI has called an assassination attempt on Trump’s life.
So if Donald Trump doesn’t want to be attacked, he shouldn’t call for attacks on others. If he doesn’t want to be assaulted, he shouldn’t call for assaults on others.
And if he doesn’t want to be burned, then he shouldn’t continually light fires that might burn down his own home.
Voters in 2024 have placed Trump into the White House. But they should have considered that bit of inherent instability in Donald Trump as a human being, considered who he sometimes goes out of his way to attract as potential supporters, and then honestly asked themselves whether he can successfully serve as a president in a functioning democracy.
