Why Assassins Almost Always Go After Republicans
During a press conference held shortly after an armed gunman ran through a security barrier at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with the obvious intention of shooting President Trump and other members of his administration, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked this question: “Respectfully, why do you think this keeps happening to you?” Trump answered, “The people who do the most, the people who have the biggest impact, they’re the ones that they go after.” And by “they,” Trump meant Democrats. He has, for obvious reasons, studied presidential assassinations and knows that all but one of the victims were Republicans.
Republican President Abraham Lincoln was, of course, murdered by John Wilkes Booth in April of 1865. Corporate media “fact checkers” and online misinformation sites like Wikipedia have in recent years desperately attempted to revise history to conceal Booth’s political affiliation with the Democrats. FactCheck.org, for example, falsely identified him as a member of the Know-Nothing Party. That claim has been frequently repeated but any competent and politically neutral researcher will quickly discover that the No-Nothings disappeared from the political landscape when Booth was 15 years old — ten years before he assassinated Lincoln.
The next president to be assassinated was Republican James Garfield, who was shot by Charles Guiteau in July of 1881. As with John Wilkes Booth, there have been clumsy attempts to conceal Guiteau’s affiliation with the Democrats. Wikipedia, for example, tells us on one line that he identified as a “Liberal Republican,” yet contradicts that very claim in the next sentence by pointing out that, in 1872, he voted for Horace Greeley. In that election Greeley ran on the Democrat presidential ticket against incumbent Republican Ulysses S. Grant — a much reviled figure among all Democrats for his success in defeating the Confederacy.
The third president to be assassinated was Republican William McKinley. Is anyone beginning to detect a pattern here? McKinley was shot in September of 1901 by Leon Czolgosz, whose biography has obviously been scrubbed clean of any reference to the Democratic Party. Depending on the source, He is variously described as a socialist, anti-capitalist, anarchist and even a disgruntled McKinley voter. A simple internet search on that incongruous claim produces the following result: “Based on available historical accounts, it is uncertain if Leon Czolgosz voted for William McKinley in 1896, although it is possible.”
This is why assassins go after Republican presidents. They are an existential threat to the Democratic Party, and Trump is the tip of the spear.
Other Republican presidents who have survived assassination attempts include Theodore Roosevelt, (1912), Gerald Ford (1975), Ronald Reagan (1981), and Donald Trump (2024 twice and once in 2026). Their would-be assassins, we are told by “historians,” were all loners with murky motivations. Similarly implausible claims have been made about James Hodgkinson, who opened fire on Republican congressmen who were practicing for a baseball game and very nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) in 2017, and now Tyler Robinson who has been charged with killing Charlie Kirk. Here’s a hint on their motives: They all shot Republicans.
As Jesus of Nazareth put it, “You shall know them by their fruits.” This brings us to the Democrat claim that violence has no place in politics. Former President Barack Obama echoed this on social media Sunday morning: “Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all of us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy.” In reality, he normalized violence against Republicans. Obama, you will recall, described GOP voters as bitter people who “cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them.”
It is no coincidence that Hillary Clinton described Trump supporters as “deplorable” and Joe Biden called them “garbage.” Such rhetoric dehumanizes their political opponents. This is why Kamala Harris openly called Donald Trump a “fascist” during her failed presidential bid. If you convince weak-minded people that a politician is dangerous to “our democracy,” it justifies violence against him. Biden told donors five days before Donald Trump was shot in Pennsylvania, “It’s time to put Trump in a bull’s-eye.” There is no doubt that such vitriol incites violence, and that is why Democrats and the corporate media deploy it.
Democrats have deliberately created a permission structure for all types of political violence, including assassination. As recently as last Wednesday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stood before an image of President Trump and called for, “Maximum Warfare Everywhere All The Time.” Sen. Elisa Slotkin (D-Mich.) insists that President Trump is an “existential threat to democracy.” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) promises that anyone who has cooperated with President Trump and the Republicans will become a target in the future, “We are not going to look kindly on people who facilitated authoritarianism in our country.”
This is why assassins go after Republican presidents. They are an existential threat to the Democratic Party, and Trump is the tip of the spear. Raskin is issuing a direct threat to the President and his supporters. He said these things the morning after an assassin attempted to get into the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and kill the President and any other administration official he could hit. Remember Raskin’s words on November 3, 2026.
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