Why Do People Keep Trying To Shoot Donald Trump?

After a potentially second assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the question that needs to be asked is why does this keep happening?

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Why Are People Trying To Shoot Trump?

After the first assassination attempt, the nation was semi-surprised. I suggest they were only semi-surprised because Trump has been the main driver and encourager of political violence in the United States for almost a decade.

Many people were not surprised when some of the same dark forces his political career surfed above turned against him.

This potential second attempt that happened on Sunday raises several more questions, and most of them don’t involve the person who seems to have intended to harm the ex-president, but why do these situations keep cropping up around Donald Trump?

The Politics Of Extremism

It might seem difficult to believe, but Trump has gotten more extreme. In 2016, Trump was worried about proving himself as a Republican. By 2024, Trump has been claiming that he and the Republican Party are not conservative, but they are “common sense.”

The common sense they mirror is the thoughts and feelings of Donald Trump.

Trump’s claim that legal immigrants in Ohio are eating cats and dogs gave the rest of the nation a look at what those of us who have been covering Trump for years already understood.

There is no moderation with Trump. The ex-president considers what used to pass for the Republican Party to be liberal. The extremism of Trump’s Republican Party carries over into policymaking. Whether the issue is reproductive freedom or gun laws, the policy is made through the prism of right-wing extremism.

Sarah discussed some of this extremism on Sunday with the BBC:

The Trump culture of extremist rhetoric leads to extreme actions.

Until Trump, there was a reason why politicians didn’t traffic in extremism because it is dangerous. Extremist rhetoric is dangerous for society, and it is dangerous to the extremists themselves.

Extremism is the gateway to violence. Extremists like Trump attract other extremists, and some of them will have violent intentions.

Divisiveness Is Trump’s Fuel