At a rally in Pennsylvania, someone evidently opened fire on Donald Trump, who was escorted by Secret Service with blood coming from his ear and on his face.
But before he could be escorted out, he stood up and held a defiant fist in the air, and shouted, "FIGHT! FIGHT!
This is the iconic image:
Had this been done to his opponent, we would never have heard the end of all the propaganda about how all the right-wing hate had spilled over into violence.
When the shoe is on the other foot, of course it'll be silence. Those same voices won't say: all the absurd Hitler comparisons, and warnings that he would rule as a dictator, etc., led to this act of violence. Forget it.
I guess whatever I was planning to discuss in the next episode of the Tom Woods Show is off the table now.
We have to talk about this event and what it means.
I hardly know what to say.
But whatever I wind up saying, I hope you'll listen in.
