The left's rejection of civilized norms

Can you imagine if someone had suggested that the solution to Obama was John Wilkes Booth?

The media would crucify whomever said that and preach to us endlessly how monstrous all conservatives were.

Yet recently a famous Broadway actress asked where Booth was in the context of President Trump.

Was she serious?  I would have said no five years ago but given the insanity on the Left these days and their supposed belief that Trump is literally a monster I no longer can be sure.

It's easy for people to go to extremes when they think doing so will fix a great wrong.

We all think that the German officers who tried to assassinate Hitler were engaged in a noble, albeit sadly unsuccessful, endeavor.

Given that the #FakeNews media is constantly bombarding reason resistant leftists with more and more hyperbolic lies about Trump is it surprising that many on the left think that extraordinary means are in fact ok?

It would appear that there's a good chance that the left is now seriously toying with the idea of accepting calls for the assassination of Trump.  We know the left is comfortable, in general, with the idea of Antifa using violence to silence speech they don't like-- just like their Nazi Brown Shirt predecessors-- so the leap to assassination is not as long as it used to be for them.

This is in fact an existential threat to America. If one political party decides that it can use violence to impose its will on the people then the only outcomes are civil war or the elimination of a free America.

If society, read the #FakeNews media, don't speak out against violence in support of their cause it's quite likely that the voices of violence will increase and America will be placed in a very dangerous situation.

But even if the actress wasn't being serious joking about killing a public figure shows an amazing lack of common decency.  A common precursor to violence is the dehumanization of the future victim.  Before the concentration camps the Nazi's waged a propaganda war to convince Germans that Jews were less than human and unworthy of life.  Saying that it's ok to kill Trump, but not kill Obama, is a brick in the wall of the dehumanization of Trump and by association his "deplorable" supporters.

Conservatives loath the policies of the left but no one in the the conservative movement is calling for violence against them.

If the left continues on its current trajectory America will be at risk of serious violence started by the left but finished by the right.  That's something that no one wants.

We all need to condemn the left's drift towards violence and away from the ballot box if we are to preserve America.