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[Order Daniel Greenfield’s new book, Domestic Enemies: HERE.]
What Trump always knew and what so many in his party did not was crystallized in fire and blood on a July evening forty miles outside Pittsburgh.
After the shooting, FBI agents, reporters, and a million social media voices descended physically and virtually on the Butler Farm Show Grounds in search of answers. The shooter’s pictures and phone have been pored over, CNN talking heads have analyzed the impact on the election and scrutinized the performance of the former and likely future president’s security detail. And while these things matter, they are not the thing that truly matters.
When Trump rode down the escalator on another summer day nine years ago, he was riding into history and into danger. He did not see the bullet coming, but he did see the crisis. The journey that took him from Trump Tower on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue to a Pennsylvania field where livestock usually march around in pens was aimed at confronting the threat to the country.
What Trump understood, and so many did not, was that the crisis is the way forward.
Some are stricken by a crisis while others are energized by it, and that has been true of the initial reaction among many Republicans and conservatives to the Trump assassination attempt, but what everyone is coming to understand is that no problem can be solved without confronting the crisis. The GOP has far too long evaded the crises, seeking compromises and easy answers, and the Trump decade during which it began confronting them has often been messy and ugly.
Some may think that the messiness and ugliness came to a head near Butler, PA, but it did not. If history tells us anything, it’s that we have not seen the worst of what human nature offers. But, even in the face of a former fire chief giving his life for his family and Trump’s raised fist, we have also not seen the best. If there may be worse times ahead, there are better ones too.
And we cannot arrive at the reaches of that ‘promised land’ without dealing with the worse ones.
That is the difficult lesson Trump has been teaching Republicans by example. Sometimes the example has been bloody. And at the Butler grounds, there was actual blood. But while it may have been the first time there was presidential blood on the floor, it’s not the first time there was peril. When the BLM race riots came to D.C.,Trump and his family had to be taken to a bunker underneath the White House because there were fears the mob would invade the grounds.
And Corey Comperatore was far from the first to die in the radical rage over Trump. It would be nice if he were to be the last.
9 years ago, a Manhattan real estate tycoon poked a bear which was unused to being poked. The bear, tending to furious rages over not only pointed criticism, but the simple existence of things that offended it, like the middle class, the nuclear family and organized religion, went mad. And despite the efforts by the Democrat political establishment and the media which pretend to control the bear (when it’s actually the bear that controls them), it is madder than ever. That is why everyone, Republicans and Democrats, used to refrain from annoying it.
Trump did the opposite. From the beginning of his political life to his raised fist, he took the fight to the radicals. He didn’t worry about offending them or enraging them, and he did it not only because it was fun, but because he knew that solutions only come through confrontations.
His response to the crisis is also a lesson for everyone in every walk of life.
A crisis is not a sign that something is going wrong, but that it’s going right. It’s only human to get caught up in the moment of the crisis, to linger in the bloody aftermath or to wonder what might have happened if the target hadn’t moved at just the right time, but Trump has always understood what the Left has, that a crisis is really an opportunity to go to the next level.
Rather than slowing down, Trump sped up, revising his speech, picking a VP and kicking his campaign into gear. The raised fist after the shooting was more than a symbol of defiance, but the act of a man who reacts best and lives the most in the ultimate moment of crisis.
And that is as it should be.
American history has been shaped by our reactions to crises. Despite our best efforts, we were not able to avoid the American Revolution or the Civil War, but we came to see them as crises that were for the best and that made us who we are. The Trump years are doing the same thing.
The problems are too big and the challenges too grave for us to do anything else.
There are rifles aimed and bullets flying at our country every single day. Governments and politicians have failed to deal with these threats because they have worked to evade them. In a historic moment on a field where cows once traipsed, Trump showed us and all of history how not only to fearlessly meet a crisis, but how to rise from it and be strengthened by it.
Trump’s raised fist symbolizes that what you do when the bullets are flying is crucial, but what you do afterward changes it all. The crisis is not the thing to be afraid of, it’s the way forward.
This should be used in Trumps reelection Bid to show the Liberals UN/CFR Globalists the real meaning of DONT TREAD ON ME
Beautiful piece, Daniel, earnest and from your heart. Thank you. I haven’t seen a better summation of that day from anyone. All I can say is Trump brought me to tears of joy when he managed to get up from that tangle of Secret Service agents on the stage, bloody and disheveled, to signal to us all with his fist raised in defiance, that he was fine and to fight, fight, fight ! Then I heard a Convention attendee on Bannon’s War Room today describe that moment as “Gangster” and Trump as the most “Badass’ President we’ve ever had and I loved that, too ! I’m 81 years old and have witnessed in real time on TV the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK and Pope John Paul, but I’ve never experienced so many feelings at once, chief among them TEARS, JOY, RELIEF and PURE ANGER. We all dodged that bullet on July 13, and I believe we may have felt what could only have been the hand of God.
DON’T TREAD ON US indeed, Mr Spurwing ! The Gadsden Flag hangs on my old red barn in deep blue NY State.
Well said. And your reaction was in harmony with the same chord heard by millions of us. When Trump first fought his way up from beneath that pile-on by the Secret Service, with his fist raised in defiance, my wife and I heard the cry rise up from the people nearest to the stage. It was a singular cry of joy replacing dread and hope overcoming fear. I’m not ashamed to admit I had a lump in my throat the size of a watermelon. Love is what drove Trump’s desire to let us know he was all right and it was answered by the intense response of loyalty and love from those nearest the kill zone.. I’ve never witnessed anything like it.
BLM
Blacks
Love
Mayhem
B lack
L ies
M urder
The majority of them are the bastard offspring of illiterate section 8 sluts so I prefer to call it Bastards Love Mayhem (and murder too!). That’s as close to the truth as it gets!
Impugning all blacks for the sins of a handful of miscreants among them is wrong and worse. To do so would be like trying to lump Dr. Ben Carson, Dr. Thomas Sowell, Candice Owens, et all, in together with a bunch of ignorant, uneducated, violent black street thugs and nasty looking, lazy ass, obese ghetto sluts with 5 kids and 5 baby daddies.
But this is exactly what the liberal media and the Dems do. It’s their stock in trade.
Candice Owens has proven herself to be an ignorant, uneducated, violent black street thug.
Accurate account Daniel, but I do have one comment.
The crisis, and the establishment that created it, are bigger than America it is globalist and its head is in turtle bay.
Defund the UN now.
Defund? How about giving everyone in the building a 24 hour notice and the raze the building and everything associated with it? Let them rebuild the UN in someplace like Yemen or Afghanistan or Somalia.
That’s a better and more permanent solution than merely defunding the UN. An organization that has the same utility as teats on a bull.
And a country who more fully agrees with its ideology.
Good idea. And it begs the question, has the UN actually succeeded in preventing conflict? What has it actually accomplished all these years? And at our expense?
They’ve succeeded at bringing first world problems to third world conflicts and third world problems to first world countries.
Trump’s political battles have been a tutorial in courage. The left loathes courage because it defies their power, so Trump teaches everyone how to stick it to the cowardly left. Trump is the hero and the left looks ever more loathsome. Trump is a teacher that knows he can’t fight every battle, so he is showing us what we can accomplish with the courage that comes from faith.
The Left doesn’t loathe the “courage” and FAITH to be irrational, in fact it celebrates the so-called “courage” and faith to be irrational. For example, the courage and faith of the transgender religion.
It takes one hell of a blind FAITH to believe that you’re really a female born inside a male body.
What the Left does loathe is the courage to be rational and accept the facts of reality.
What a genius you are. I had no idea the left hated clear thinking.
Did you come up with that all by yourself. If only you had the ability to think clearly.
I guarantee if Trump wins you will still be complaining.
You are the classic loser.
You know nothing about faith or courage. You are a little man obsessed with irrational ideas about rationality. Your only courage is the courage to defend the untenable, ad nauseam, and thereby make a complete fool of yourself.
Faith is a precursor for courage, therefore it is also essential when the need arises to oppose evil.
The left doesn’t necessarily believe all of the lies they use strategically. Their lies are expedient means to one ugly end or another.
Please explain why you think it takes courage to be rational .I’m in the mood to be amused.
Mount Rushmore will be getting a new face carved into it ( Donald J. Trump) in the years ahead!
The ‘day of’ something happening is inseparable from the ‘day after’ something happens, one would think. But this concept is against Democrat doctrine, as so clearly articulated with its policy towards Israel.
And now, that disassociative differentiating between what happens and then what should happen because of what happens is playing out in America.
The ‘day of’ the assassination attempt, Americans are listening to Trump, the man, the American and the policy rolled into a unified whole. What a contrast to Biden, a disjointed composite of an ego, a corrupt politician and a mouthpiece for someone else’s destructive policy. Bullets pop.
A nanosecond later, moving into ‘day after’ territory, all of America sees, literally, LITERALLY, how CHOOSING the next president is, as the Dems say, but not at all what they mean, the LIFE OR DEATH issue for every American. Because it’s not a life or death issue of ‘democracy’ dying. It’s the issue of a human being dying. It’s the issue certainly for Trump and for his family, for the families of the critically injured and for the mourning family of the man who was murdered by the assassin’s bullets.
Will that visceral shock wear off by Election Day?
The Dems are counting on that. Will the ‘day after’ bring an epiphany to the fear of a Hitler Democrat voter’s mindset?
At this moment, man-made events, tweaked with the hand of God, have given the Trump-Biden (or whoever) matchup a David-Goliath aura. Democrats have hidden their iron fist behind Biden’s face.
Four months is a long time for anything to happen. Who knows what the Dems, and God, have planned.
Will the Dems be put out to pasture like those cows who once traipsed on a grassy field?
“some are stricken by a crisis , others energized by it” That is the most important line you have ever written Daniel.
Our society and culture is run by the stricken types that always cry for help to get out of the unnecessary trouble they have created.
The source is called the amygdala. Reason is not an option.
Well, I got an email from Netflix saying my subscription would be cut off in 24 hours for some reason or another, so I’ve been watching nothing but Netflix for days now so it wouldn’t be cut off. Let me tell you, it’s tedious and I missed the Trump assassination attempt completely.
Not that anybody cares about my personal life. Hell, I barley even care.
There’s a lot of spam emails going around pretending to be Netflix threatening cutoffs. I got several even though I don’t have a Netflix account 🙂
Sounds like a spam email.
Gives you something to do while waiting for that item you ordere for $876.49 to arrive.
Saturday was the first attempt on Trump by Biden.
There will be others before November.
After Trump is killed………..Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Alex Jones will get whacked as well by the Deep State.
Everyone around here thinks Trump is a lock to win the presidency.
The DEMS will kill whoever they have to to stop Trump.
Don’t think for one second that DEMS won’t kill YOU……….because they will.
Notice how DEMS are no longer calling for Biden to resign since he tried to whack Trump?
THAT is what DEMS want………to kill Trump and then YOU.
DEMS don’t care how perverted ,corrupt and senile Biden is as long as he’s killing the people DEMS want killed.
Chanting “God is in control” is not gonna save you.
Perhaps Trump raised his fist to appeal to the Gay vote.
After all, Gays love fisting. ~
👋 – 😊
. . ✊ – 🥴
. . . . 🖐️ – 🤗
Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
You should have trimmed your fingernails. ~
Sounds like you would know.
The reason why I find it abhorrent, and the reason why I joke about it, is that I lived for 17 years in a small apartment with thin walls…..and I could hear everything my neighbors got up to.
All of the domestic dysfunctionality of America’s big cities came through, except for gang take-overs of the area where I lived. When the gangs eventually turned their attentions to the area, I got out….even though I couldn’t afford it….I couldn’t afford not to.
So yes, I would know…..and Do know. ….and I joke about it.
Nothing has changed.
The same destructive, nihilist, ideas are still being taught at the universities and will keep on being taught at the universities after President Trump is long gone from the White House.
Remember the “Reagan Revolution”? Remember how Reagan was going to save America? President Reagan has now been dead and buried for 20 years and things have only gotten much worse.
President Trump is a very courageous man in many ways, but one man cannot save a country.
Only the right philosophy taught at the universities can save America. That philosophy is not Christianity (Christianity prepared the ground for Marxism) but Objectivism.
“The present state of the world is not the proof of philosophy’s impotence, but the proof of philosophy’s power. It is philosophy that has brought men to this state—it is only philosophy that can lead them out.” – Ayn Rand
Recently you bemoaned the fact that there are few positions available for Objectivist professors at the university level. I see you are still bemoaning it. So I thought I would do a little research to help you out.
Here’s what I found:
forum.objectivismonline.com/index.php?/topic/1901-objectivist-professors/
www.atlassociety.org/post/government-jobs-for-objectivists
ari.aynrand.org/about-ari/get-involved/
www.atlassociety.org/post/careers-in-medicine-and-social-work
Get off your ass and go get a job at the university level. But you won’t. Some people would rather whine and moan than actually accomplish something
You are the king of the do-nothings.
Trump did not melt into a pile of cowardice when he was shot but he rose with ten times more determination. Liberals promote mediocrity and conformity. They seek sheep like conformists who are afraid to rock the boat. They don’t know how to stop Trump and don’t understand his level of pragmatism. They have reduced their dialogue to irrationality. They compare Trump to Hitler while they follow Marxist ideology without seeing the difference.
They claim Trump is a threat to Democracy while they weaponize the Department of Justice in a very acute imitation of Joe Stalin.
The only way for the survival of America is to embrace critical thinkers who are as pragmatic as Trump. Conformity kills the spirit but critical thinking allows the mind to flourish. It’s time to cleanse America of these self destructive automatons. Go Trump!
It is the nature of life to test us. And when those tests come, how we respond is a barometer of our growth and commitment to that which we say we value.
Trump has evidenced his commitment to our nation and people, rising from this attempt on his life with a raised fist and as a native New Yorker, a mantra well known, “Fight”. It’s not how many times you’re down that shows the measure of a person, it’s how many times you get back up.
America was born from the crucible of rebellion against tyranny…and we can’t lay down, we stand up and FIGHT for our people, our country and our freedom!!
Burn Loot Murder BLM
“The crisis is the way forward” INDEED! Puts me in mind of a line from Mukherjee’s renowned book on cancer, “The Emperor of All Maladies”: “The only way out is the way through it.”