The peril of dehumanizing rhetoric
American Thinker,
by
Kevin Finn
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
4/26/2026 7:35:03 AM
Prominent voices on the left have been branding their opponents as Nazis, “literally Hitler,” pedophiles, or “a threat to democracy.” This inflammatory language dehumanizes entire groups, paints targets on people’s backs, erodes civil discourse, and creates a climate where violence is viewed as justifiable.
When rhetoric escalates to open calls for harm, the consequences are deadly: attempted assassinations of President Trump, the 2017 shooting of Republican congressmen at baseball practice, the murder of Charlie Kirk, and assaults on pro-life activists. Leftists are normalizing the violence against Republicans.
President Trump attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton last evening—
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When your side has no ideas on which to sway voters to your side, the only option left is Hate and Violence. Just look at every Communist Regime ever to exist, and the beginning of every, single, one started with Hatred and Violence aimed at those in power...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mobyclik 4/26/2026 7:56:43 AM (No. 2097263)
I'll be generous and give the useless media seven days to get back to their standard 'Hate Trump' rhetoric that they live for. Maybe some of the leftwing politicians will shut their hate-filled mouths for a little longer than that, but......never mind, no they won't.
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The suggestion of assassination of Trump by Democrat politicians, like Maxine Waters, and late-night "comedians," including SNL, must be denounced every time. Such loose talk has led to the attempts on President Trump's life.... the main cause, I say.
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voxpopuli 4/26/2026 8:01:54 AM (No. 2097273)
This has been done on purpose... the global communists/democrats have been using Orwell's 1984 as a playbook since the first edition. Even Rules for Radicals is based on it
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Mr Clean 4/26/2026 8:19:41 AM (No. 2097285)
"Leftists are normalizing the violence against Republicans."
This is what they do because this is who they are—and it's only going to get worse. I wish there could be a rational solution but that ship sailed and sank long ago.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/26/2026 8:27:20 AM (No. 2097292)
The shooter was a failure, professionally.
Someone who has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from a top school, plus a master's in computer science, was way under=employed as a tutor, went for FAME! I want to live forever! (1980s tv sh ow)
I will shoot up the dinner! Fame!
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felixcat 4/26/2026 8:31:41 AM (No. 2097295)
So called “journalists” hide behind freedom if the press to justify/deflect their hateful comments and attacks on Trump, his family, friends and supporters. Members of Congress like Waters (even though not speaking from the well if the House) telling people to get in their faces, throw them out if restaurants, etc gets a pass. But we’re suppose to defer to these self-anointed clowns.
Glad that President Trump is okay but I was really looking to him skewering the assembled journalist hacks.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Northcross 4/26/2026 8:37:49 AM (No. 2097300)
Remember Hillary Clinton's "Basket of Deplorables"
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Griff Jenkins was just speaking to Mary Catherine Hamm and he used the ‘both sides do it’ argument. I wish someone in position to challenge him to put up or shut up with the both sides argument.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/26/2026 8:59:20 AM (No. 2097310)
The "250 journalists" plus prominent Democrats have done everything they could to demonize their political opponents, especially President Trump. Their careers should be over. Doubtless there are others who are inspired to ultimate violence by the out of control rhetoric. I've finally had enough of the leftist hatred, and have completely tuned out the likes of Hakeem Jefferies and Barry Soetoro. They're up to no good, and we need to remind them daily. If they don't stifle themselves, they'll have to be stifled. Words like bullets eventually lead to real bullets. The political left is full of death, chockablock with it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/26/2026 10:15:57 AM (No. 2097360)
Prominent people, including the perpetrator of last night’s attack on the President and his crew, have been branding their political opponents all the derogatory names listed in the article. Who are all those “people”? Unless you are one of the three blind mice, you should have recognized long ago that those “people” are leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats and their supporters.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Sistersuzey 4/26/2026 12:32:06 PM (No. 2097426)
The fact that they, themselves, were also at risk of death, may be a serious wakeup call to how out of hand things have become.
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