Short Stack: The Question No One Is Asking
Progressives have insisted, ever since Trump switched from being a Democrat to a Republican, that he IS Hitler. The question, then: Would it have been right or wrong to assassinate Hitler?
Let’s sidestep all the posturing and virtue-signaling. Let’s ignore the public statements, most of which sound like they were written by AI—or a ninth grader—declaring violence has no place in our politics.
It’s not even true, after all. Our nation was founded by violence. And the violence of the Revolution pales next to the violence of the Civil War.
Virtually every important chapter in American history has been written with blood. Don’t take my word for it. Ask Martin Luther King Jr.
The Question That Matters, Yet No One Is Asking
Enough nonsense. Let’s turn away from all scripted, insincere, untrue chatter. Let’s turn away, at least for a moment, from the logistical details of precisely what happened on Saturday because, in a decisive way, they don’t affect the important moral questions.
Let us instead cut to the moral core of the matter and ask the question no one is asking:
Do progressives believe it would have been morally right or morally wrong to kill Adolph Hitler in the 1930s or early 1940s?
Answering this question provides great moral clarity about the attempted assassination of Trump this past weekend.
For the better part of a decade, progressive Democrats have insisted that Donald Trump is just like Adolph Hitler, in all the worst ways.
Demonstrating that they are unburdened by the basic elements of rhetoric—such as grammar—many progressives declaim in public that Trump literally is Hitler.
(Someone please teach these poorly-educated fools what the adverb literally means, and how it differs from metaphorically. Thank you.)
Further, these same progressives insist that we Americans right now are living in 1930s-40s Germany! Sometimes they add: We are literally in Nazi Germany!
Very well.
Then tell us, progressive Democrats: If someone could have successfully assassinated Hitler — many tried, none succeeded — would the assassination of Hitler have been morally right? Would it have been good, or justified, or even praiseworthy?
Your answer will reveal how you really think the rest of us should view Thomas Crooks’s attempt to assassinate Donald Trump on Saturday evening because you insist that Trump literally is Hitler.
Trigger Warning: A Syllogism Is About To Follow
It follows that if Trump is Hitler—as progressives insist he is—and if it would have been right to assassinate der Führer, then it is right to assassinate Herr Trump.
As fellow citizens, we deserve an answer from you, progressive Democrats. Answer the question: Is it right, in your progressive opinion, to assassinate Hitler and Trump? If not, why not?
No more empty chatter. No more scripted statements. No more playing. You have insisted Trump is Hitler, thousands of times over. You even transpose images of Trump and Hitler on your favorite progressive magazines. So answer the damn question.
Note to readers: Please repeat this question in the venues and on the platforms and to the social networks to which you have access. I truly do not care about getting credit. If you want to share or repost my Short Stack, that is fine. If you want to rephrase the question in your own words and not mention me, that too is fine.
We now live in a postmodern, progressive nation in which millions of our fellow citizens experience little or no classical education, they dismiss reason as a prejudice while confusing emotive feelings with truth, and mock virtue without understanding what the virtues are or why they’re important.
To boot, many of our fellow citizens find history boring. They don’t know that the foolish things they want to do now have been tried before and resulted in great failures. They don’t know that Nazi Germany was a failed experiment in progressive central planning and social engineering. Eugenics, after all, is perhaps the purest form of progressive social engineering, ever!
Many of these same fellow citizens know little or nothing about Adolph Hitler, yet that does not stop them from posting their little memes on social media and chattering endlessly about how Trump IS Hitler—because they “feel” Trump IS Hitler.
It’s time to call them out. Please bring this moral question to the attention of others: Would it have been right or wrong to kill Hitler then? And what does the answer mean regarding killing Trump now? Anyone who says Trump is Hitler, and it would’ve been right to assassinate Hitler, is saying it is right to assassinate Trump.
-Tom