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Calls to “Eliminate” Trump Getting More Unhinged and Dangerous

&NewLine;<p>In recent months&comma; Democrats and the left-wing media have been ramping up their calls for President Trump to be removed from office <strong>immediately<&sol;strong>&period; They are amplifying their dubious claims that the President is&comma; in their words&comma; unhinged&comma; insane&comma; demented&comma; and so forth&period; And they insist he is getting worse&comma; as if that is even possible based on their own hysterical descriptions&period; They call him an existential threat to the Republic and to every citizen&period; He has to go now&period; According to them&comma; the nation cannot wait until 2028&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>One wonders how these self-proclaimed saviors of democracy manage to sound so hysterical while lecturing the rest of us about threats to the Republic&period; It is almost as if they believe the Constitution comes with a secret escape clause labeled &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;if we really dislike the guy&comma; just eliminate him right now&period;” This rhetoric has become so extreme&comma; so unprecedented&comma; and so dangerous that it crosses every boundary of normal political discourse&period; Never before in modern American history have elected officials and their media allies openly mused about the immediate removal of a sitting president in language that sounds less like policy debate and more like a call to arms&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The talk about impeachment as one means to remove him persists&comma; even though the most jaded Democrat knows that is not going to happen with the current composition of Congress&period; They are calling on the Cabinet to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to declare that Trump is unwell and unfit to carry out the duties of the presidency&period; They surely know that the Twenty-Fifth Amendment option has even less chance than impeachment&period; Yet they persist with the fevered insistence that the country cannot survive two more years of this presidency&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The language incites public hysteria among the gullible &&num;8212&semi; and potentially incites lone-wolf extremists armed with AK15s&period; President Trump has already suffered two serious assassination attempts by unhinged shooters who echoed the left’s language about wanting to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;eliminate” Trump to save the Republic&period; One might think that after such violence rhetoric would moderate&period; One would be wrong&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In fact&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;eliminate” is exactly the word used by New Jersey Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman&period; During a House Budget Committee hearing&comma; Watson Coleman declared&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If we wanted to eliminate abuse and fraud&comma; we would <strong>eliminate<&sol;strong> the President of the United States from the office <strong>right now<&sol;strong>&comma; and the rest of the sycophants in his administration that are allowing him to do so many illegal things&period;” &lpar;Emphasis added&rpar;&period; This is not a measured call for constitutional process&period; It is a demand for instant action that bypasses every safeguard the Founders put in place&period; Impeachment and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment would take months or years even if they had any realistic chance of success &&num;8212&semi; which they do not&period; The call to eliminate &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;right now” leaves only one practical option on the table&comma; and that option is not pretty&period; It is called assassination&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The examples keep piling up in a manner that would be comical if it were not so reckless&period; Former FBI Director James Comey&comma; never one to miss a chance to insert himself into the drama&comma; posted a photograph on social media of seashells arranged to spell out &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;8647&period;” He captioned it innocently enough as a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;cool shell formation on my beach walk&period;” How quaint&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The number 86&comma; of course&comma; is well-known slang for &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;get rid of” or&comma; in darker circles&comma; to kill&period; Forty-seven refers to President Trump as the forty-seventh president&period; The message could not have been clearer had Comey rented a billboard&period; Yet he professed shock that anyone would interpret it as anything but a charming seaside coincidence&period; One can almost hear the chuckle from the beach as the former top cop played innocent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The recent frenzy over President Trump’s strong statements regarding Iran has only accelerated the madness&period; After he warned that failure to meet certain deadlines could result in &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a whole civilization will die tonight&comma;” more than seventy Democrats in Congress rushed to demand his immediate removal&period; Representative Ilhan Omar labeled him an &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;unhinged lunatic” who must be removed from office&period; Representative Rashida Tlaib called him a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;maniac” who should be ousted without delay&period; Representative Jamie Raskin introduced legislation to create a commission that would work with Vice President Vance and the Cabinet to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment&period; Representative John Larson filed articles of impeachment&period; Representative Mike Quigley insisted&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He must be stopped and impeached&period;” Representative Shri Thanedar sent a formal letter to the Cabinet urging immediate action under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment&period; The chorus claims the nation cannot endure two more years of what they describe as erratic&comma; dangerous&comma; and mentally unfit leadership&period; The country&comma; they wail&comma; is on the brink&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>How thoughtful of these paragons of virtue&period; They lecture endlessly about threats to democracy while openly plotting to nullify the will of more than seventy-four million voters who elected Trump in 2024&period; It is the height of irony&comma; or perhaps the depth of hypocrisy&comma; that the same voices who spent years screaming about January sixth as an existential assault on the Capitol now endorse elimination rhetoric that could inspire the next unhinged shooter&period; This is not robust debate&period; This is not passionate advocacy&period; This is extreme&comma; unprecedented&comma; and profoundly dangerous incitement dressed up as concocted concern for the Republic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The left-wing media amplifies every syllable of this hysteria&comma; turning dubious claims into headlines and painting Trump as a clear and present danger who must be neutralized before he destroys everything&period; One almost expects them to hand out pitchforks with the evening news&period; Yet when conservatives point out the obvious connection between this rhetoric and the two prior assassination attempts&comma; the response is predictable &&num;8212&semi; denial&comma; deflection&comma; and accusations that it is Trump who incites violence by existing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The ugly truth is that when elected officials and former law enforcement leaders use words like &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;eliminate right now&comma;” they are not merely venting frustration&period; They are normalizing the unthinkable&period; The rhetoric has become so extreme&comma; so unprecedented&comma; and so dangerous that it threatens the very foundation of the Republic they claim to protect&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The American people deserve better&period; They deserve leaders who respect the electoral process&comma; even when the results disappoint them&period; They deserve discourse that stops short of elimination fantasies&period; Until the left reins in this unhinged rhetoric&comma; the danger will only grow&period; And if another attempt on President Trump’s life occurs&comma; the blood will not be on the hands of some lone gunman alone&period; It will stain every politician and pundit who turned &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;eliminate” into an acceptable political option&period; One can only hope that the adults in the room will eventually show up &&num;8212&semi; before it is too late<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>So&comma; there &OpenCurlyQuote;tis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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