116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Home / Opinion / Letters to the Editor
Labeling Trump a ‘threat to democracy’ encourages violence
Tim Bickel
Oct. 2, 2024 1:24 pm
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced.
What? A second assassin’s attempt on presidential candidate Trump was Trump’s fault? He brought it on himself with his “fiery rhetoric?” We should believe the party narrative that Trump is the reincarnation of Hitler? Therefore, ignore morality of murder because the end justifies open season on Trump?
That’s the impression some Democrats, mainstream and social media are portraying in the wake of the second attempt on Trump’s life. The radical left’s mantra of “eliminating” their “existential threat to democracy” spells violence against possibly the best hope to save our republic. Meanwhile, response to Melania Trump’s plea, many unanswered questions, and efforts to uncover the truth about the first assassination attempt are shrouded in a sluggish and corrupt bureaucracy. Commissioning the fox to investigate the henhouse doesn’t work.
Are we to believe our neighbor MAGA Trump supporters are disillusioned, gullible, or stupid, needing reeducation? That higher taxes and prices, electric vehicle mandates, stopped domestic gas and oil extraction, that felons, fentanyl, child sex trafficking, drug cartels among multiplied millions of illegal immigrants are good things? Or justifying FBI infiltration of a Catholic church containing “domestic terrorists” or ordering an armed SWAT team arrest of a Christian for praying at Planned Parenthood?
I counted 33 of 45 Communist goals realized since an ex-KGB agent exposed them in the 1/10/1963 Congressional Record. Clear Marxist agendas are at work by people in power to generate racial, family, cultural strife and establish central control. Please research and reevaluate current cultural morality, and vote life-sustaining values.
Tim Bickel
Cedar Rapids
Opinion content represents the viewpoint of the author or The Gazette editorial board. You can join the conversation by submitting a letter to the editor or guest column or by suggesting a topic for an editorial to editorial@thegazette.com