One week ago, the Washington Post reported on hundreds of TikTok videos by young progressives calling for Trump’s death without saying words that would result in a Secret Service arrest. That hate speech should disturb every American, and frighten every Republican because conservatives – from Steve Scalise (R-LA) in 2017 to Charlie Kirk (R-AZ) last September – are the ones getting gunned down.
After an attempted assassination on Justice Kavanaugh and three attempts on President Trump, it’s time to say the quiet part out loud: the only real threat to our democracy are the so-called liberals, whose reaction to conservatives winning elections are public exhortations for violence. Like Senate Democrats John Tester (“punch him in the face”) in 2019 and Chuck Schumer (“the public should be forcefully rising up”) this year. So, it’s no surprise that Hot Air just reported on five recent death threats that resulted in a law enforcement response:
- New Hampshire – FAA worker Dean DellaChiaie threatened to kill Trump after researching how to get a gun into a federal facility
- Florida – Nathaniel Sanders attracted the FBI by threatening to bomb the White House
- Illinois – Michael Kovco sent a message to the WH website, threatening to kill Donald and Barron Trump
- Massachusetts – Andrew Emerald drew a sword when the FBI responded to his repeated Facebook threats to kill Trump
- Pennsylvania – Shawn Monper pleaded guilty to threatening to murder Trump
These pathetic individuals are simply responding to Democrats calling Republicans an “existential threat” and constantly using the new N-word (“Nazi”) and F-bomb (“Fascist”). The antidote for this animus was uttered in 2022 by former Arizona governor Doug Ducey: “I’m a conservative. I’m just not angry about it.” His audience was a GOP gathering at the Reagan Library, but his call for less “attitude and anger” in political speech could have better been directed at Democrats.
Like Ducey, I much prefer the “cheerful conservatism” of President Reagan. However, I don’t blame “angry conservatism” on President Trump, which columnists George Will and Peggy Noonan have done since 2017. Noonan, in fact, has been lecturing the GOP base since 2010, when she decried the Tea Party for “sounding so angry” on Fox News; a little silly when the Tea Party ousted 63 Democrats from the House and chose “Tea Party” for the right reasons.
Any fiscal conservative should have been angered by Barack Obama’s progressive ideas that doubled the budget deficit ($458.6 billion in 2008 to $1.09 trillion in 2012) and national debt ($10.02 trillion in 2008 to $19.57 trillion in 2016). Even worse, Obamacare sent total US healthcare costs (private and public) spiraling upward, from $2.3 trillion in 2008 to $5.3 trillion in 2024. I’ve got news for Noonan: the Obama-Biden crowd eats politesse for breakfast.
Since 2008, Democrats have steadily retreated from the ideals of the Declaration (“life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”). To wit, LA’s Democrat mayor ignored the right to life by defunding the police (reversed after a sharp rise in homicides), Biden’s FBI trampled on religious liberty by spying on Catholics in Richmond, Virginia, and an entire generation’s pursuit of happiness was cancelled by Democrats during the COVID years. That’s a lot of hurt from one party, because Democrats got some really bad advice.
When Black Lives Matter pushed defunding the police, somebody should have mentioned that police intervene in 15 million incidents of domestic violence every year, and that unarmed black men are just 22 of the 1,271 fatally shot by police each year (source: Bureau of Crime Statistics)
When anti-racists harangued the Biden administration into believing the FBI needed to investigate white supremacists interested in “Radical Traditionalist Catholic” thought, someone should have mentioned the Catholic Church educates over 900,000 minority students a year.
When the public teachers unions pushed school districts in blue cities and blue states, educational expertise should have anticipated what actually happened: (1) only 0.0018% of America’s students died from COVID, (2) average test scores declined the most since national standardized tracking began in the 1970s, and (3) from 2019 to 2021, adolescent girls attempting suicide increased 51% (source: CDC).
That data says Democrats made bad decisions, which begs the question: who’s in Democrat ears? Some far-left groups we know, such as Black Lives Matter, but also a lot of anonymous groups and dark money that we the people don’t want anywhere near our leaders. Some of these organizations (e.g. The Chorus and Singham Network) are now under government investigation.
However, one subversive nonprofit, operating a dark-money network, caught my eye: the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which was indicted by a federal grand jury last month. I remember the SPLC as a legitimate watchdog, which put the Ku Klux Klan out of business. I used their Hate Map as a reference for this blog; so, I was shocked to see the SLPC accused of increasingly targeting benign conservative organizations and religious groups.
The Capital Research Center, a nonprofit watchdog, claims the SPLC has been investing millions to stoke division and smear conservative organizations as hate groups. Acting AG Todd Blanche alleges that the SPLC uses “donor money to profit off Klansmen…manufacturing racism to justify its existence” (source: Just The News). “Profit” is right because the SPLC’s 2024 financial statements value the watchdog at $790 million.
According to federal prosecutors, from 2014 to 2023, that war chest allowed the SPLC to “operate a network of shell companies” that “secretly funneled over $3 million” to members of hate groups like the Aryan Nations, Ku Klux Klan, and National Socialist Party of America. So, what does it mean when a federal grand jury in Alabama indicted the SPLC for bank fraud and money laundering?
For one, it means “social justice” organizations probably need to be time-bound. The SPLC was founded by Morris Dees and Joseph Levin in 1971 to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan by bankrupting it in civil court (holding the Klan and its leaders financially liable for the actions of its members). By 1990 – after winning massive monetary damages and seizing assets – the SPLC had effectively put the Klan out of business. Hmm…why pay a Klansmen to tell you the KKK is still up to no good?
In its defense, the SPLC claims “legitimate payments” were made to “undercover informants” inside hate groups. Fair enough…but its website landing page features this partisan war cry: “Trump’s Cabinet uses its power to roll back civil rights, deepen racial injustice, and rig the system against us.”
This looks like the SPLC’s true mission ended, they needed a most-hated enemy, and the Trump cabinet drew the short straw. No question, the SPLC is 100% alignment with the Democrat Party – meaning not a peep about the rising violence against Jews in America…or hate speech on TikTok…or attempts on a US president’s life.