Liberals DISREGARD Assassination Attempt As Nothing – Times Have Changed

During the March 30, 1981 arrest of an assailant in a shooting that nearly killed Ronald Reagan, a question was put to him by police. 

He wanted to know whether the Academy Awards, which were scheduled to take place that same evening, would be delayed. The answer was yes.

Gregory Peck said the assassination attempt “brought to mind” the murders of the Kennedys, John Lennon, and Martin Luther King.

Ronald Reagan had reason to joke with his doctors that day — “I hope you’re all Republicans” as his liberal doctor responded, “Today we are all Republicans.”

Forty-three years after Ronald Reagan almost died – the second American president in 50 years to come within an inch of his life from a bullet fired by someone seeking national immortality (JFK), Donald Trump was nearly subjected to public execution on live television. 

There has not been a similar moment of national unity. They are not canceling events or holding a moment of silence like some entertainment venues. 

All the while a few tech CEOs from Apple to Amazon to Google did post relatively milquetoast condemnations of violence, Left-wing society wasted little mournful sympathies on this former president.

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump has not caused elite universities to issue the torrent of statements on every social ill in American life that they take as their mission.

In June 2020, for example, Harvard put out a statement on the killings of George Floyd and other Black Americans. In 2020, Yale’s women and gender studies department declared their “solidarity with all acts of protest” against state-sanctioned racism and police violence. Berkeley officials have made numerous statements on George Floyd but not the Trump shooting.

To sum up, the attempted assassination on Donald Trump has prompted a wholly dissimilar reaction to that which followed Reagan being shot, demonstrating an evolution in cultural attitudes towards political violence.