Especially during a presidential campaign season, politics is always filled with martial language from both sides. Candidates talk about “fighting” and winning “battles,” of being “in the crosshairs,” etc. This is the same rhetoric we see in other areas, such as sports, yet, fortunately, there is little violence in that arena.

What one does not see in sports, however, is comparisons to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini or the routine labeling of an opponent as a “dictator.”

That, however, is what the Democratic Party and its media allies have been doing to Trump and the Republican Party for years. Former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and former Sen. Claire McCaskill both outright compared him to Hitler himself, as have anchors at CNN and MSNBC.

Vice President Kamala Harris, just days ago in Pennsylvania, said Trump “would be a dictator on Day One” and has made it a theme of her campaign that Trump “is a threat to our democracy.” Not to be outdone, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) has said Trump “is destructive to our democracy … and he has … to be eliminated.”

If Democrats believe their claim that Republican rhetoric on immigration triggers violence against immigrants — there is no evidence it is — it would stand to reason that their own rhetoric calling Trump a “threat to democracy” who “has to be eliminated” might cause violence against Republicans.

It certainly appears to do so. The suspected Trump shooter is from North Carolina, where he voted for Democratic Party candidates and donated to Democratic Party campaigns. Considering that he flew to Ukraine to help fight the Russian invasion, he appears to be a man moved to action by words.

The violence against Trump following unhinged Democratic Party rhetoric is not isolated. After Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) inveighed against conservative Supreme Court justices and said they would “pay the price” for limiting abortion, a deranged man was arrested with guns and knives outside of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in 2022.

Almost a decade earlier, only the heroic actions of a security guard prevented another deranged Democrat from killing Family Research Council staff members in 2013. In 2017, a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) shot at the Republican baseball team, injuring six and nearly killing House GOP Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA).

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It is appropriate for Democrats to blame Trump for failing to quell, and perhaps inciting, the protest that turned into a riot on Jan. 6, 2021. But they need to accept responsibility for the violence their own ridiculous rhetoric causes. Trump does not intend to be a dictator, as they know, and the nation’s democracy is plenty robust enough to survive his presidency. It has already done so.

Trump has faults, but they are being exaggerated with crazy left-wing talk. The past decade has shown that crazy talk from Democrats and their media allies inspires real violence from crazy people.