It’s wild to consider that, about a year ago, President Trump survived a public assassination attempt.  It was a turning point in the election, and had the president not turned to look at a chart at the precise moment the bullet flew, it likely would have been a dire turning point for the nation as a whole.

Fortunately, the bullet missed.  What is crazy to consider is that, a year on, this entire event seems to be forgotten—or, at least, not discussed very much.  I suppose that is the way of things—who talks about the various assassinations of European nobility and royalty in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?  Other than an Austrian archduke, we don’t.

I still shudder to think of how differently things might have been had the bullet struck.  I suspect we’d have a J.D. Vance presidency—if the election had happened at all.  Civil war would have been a likely outcome; the government cracking down and/or cancelling the election on grounds of “public safety” could have been another.  Biden’s cancerous shell might still be marionetting around the White House.

Well, thank God the would-be assassin missed, but let us keep fighting on.

With that, here is 15 July 2025’s “We Are All Deplorables Now“:

In lieu of my usual Monday Morning Movie Review, I thought it would be better to discuss the assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.  I have never witnessed something so brazen, so violent, and so reckless in this country.

Yes, people are shot every day in the United States; that is a tragedy of its own.  But an attempted assassination of the political leader of one of America’s two major political parties, who represents a grassroots movement of disaffected and neglected constituencies who believe—correctly—that their leader is the target of systemic persecution on the part of the federal government, is an entirely different animal.

Had the bullet struck true, this country would—rightly, and righteously—be in flames this morning.  We may still be heading that way yet.

Whatever your opinion of President Trump’s policies and personality, there is no justification for attempting his murder.  Those monsters bemoaning the fact that the shooter missed are too evil and/or stupid to understand how terrible political violence is—and that they’d be ground to dust in a civil war.

Based on the information we have available at this time, I have to believe that God Protected President Trump from that bullet.  Didact of Didactic Mind sums it up thusly in his post “They tried to kill the King” (emphasis and link are Didact’s):

…JUST before the first shot rings out, Donaldus Magnus moves his head just slightly to the right.

That one slight movement almost certainly saved his life, because the bullet just grazed the top of his right ear. If he had not moved his head, that bullet would have hit skull and brains – and he would likely be DEAD.

Nothing short of Divine intervention saved him yesterday…

By the way, I have American friends who are expert shots. They tell me that, at the distances involved, with the kind of weapon the shooter used – a card-carrying Omega, by the way, no doubt or question about it – they could not possibly have missed. I believe them.

A turn of his head may very well have saved the Republic—at least, what is left of it.

YouTuber Razörfist released a video that really gets to the heart of where we are right now:

Just as Trump implored his followers to “Fight, Fight, Fight!” after the shooting, Razör echoes that sentiment:  we will not give up.

We are all Deplorables now.  Donald Trump will be President on 20 January 2025.

God Bless America!

—TPP

P.S.—Prayers go out to the victims of the shooting.  At the time of writing, one man is dead from the assassin’s bullet, and two people are injured.  They did not deserve to die; let us assure they did not die in vain.