Essentially, Routh tried to kill Trump because he was extremely committed to mainstream media talking points.
In his handwritten manifesto, he stated how Trump was "Unfit" and did not "Embody the moral fabric that is America." These ideas were entirely indistinguishable from what one hears nightly on CNN or from the Harris Campaign.
For their votaries, Trump is not simply going to do a bad job or enact bad policies but represents a sui generis threat that lacks all legitimacy.
Let's not forget, the Democrats gave us the 2020 inaugural Green Zone and Biden's 2022 Philadelphia speech condemning the "MAGA Republicans." Trump is admittedly blunt, but for all his supposed lack of couth, the actual consensus beliefs of both major parties-forever wars, open borders, a surveillance state, and enormous deficits in perpetuity-are more objectively extreme than any of Trump's proposed policies.
Returning to the guys trying to kill Donald Trump, truly "Lone gunmen" don't get far.
High-up officials-including congressman Jamie Raskin-have floated truly insane ideas, like plans to preemptively reject a Trump victory and to employ the military to protect such Machiavellian congressional action.
Calling Trump a "Threat to democracy" repeatedly has itself threatened democracy by undermining his legitimacy during his first term and prospectively undermining his legitimacy if he should prevail in 2024.
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