When people say that Trump broke the minds of some on the left, it’s not an exaggeration.
The College Fix reports:
Academics seize on Trump assassination attemptMany in higher education didn’t waste time jumping on Saturday’s attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania.Perhaps most noteworthy is the University of Southern California’s Shaun Harper, who ended up having his article deleted by Forbes after he hypothesized that Trump’s “surviving gunfire” could result in appealing to black voters.Harper, who in 2022 claimed that if the January 6 “insurrectionists” had been primarily black they’d have been “massacred,” wrote that Trump conceivably might say “And the Blacks, they love me because they know the terrifying sound of gunshots.” He added “Hopefully he doesn’t. But it isn’t at all unthinkable.”The USC Race and Equity Center executive director also theorized Trump “could claim” that raising his fist shortly after being nicked by the would-be assassin’s bullet was an “homage” to the raised black-gloved fists of track stars Tommy Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympic Games.The University of British Columbia’s Karen Pinder, whose faculty page notes she “is dedicated to excellence in education in the UBC M.D. undergraduate program,” tweeted shortly after the shooting “Damn, so close. Too bad” (pictured).In response to a commenter saying she “reeeeally wished the [shooter] had better aim,” Pinder replied “What a glorious day this could have been.”Pinder’s X account has since been made inactive.The University of Massachusetts at Lowell’s Arie Perliger wrote in The Conversation that the Trump shooting “for many of the people on the far right, fits very well into a narrative that they’ve already been constructing and disseminating for the last few months.”Perliger, a “principal investigator” for a just-under $1 million Department of Justice-funded project on mis/disinformation, went on to decry the “increasing [political] polarization” in the United States since 2008″ … and specifically cited the Tea Party movement.The University of Guleph’s Shoshanah Jacobs, in response to Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre’s tweet expressing relief that Trump’s suspected shooter had been shot dead by the Secret Service, wrote “We’re executing suspects now?”When it was pointed out the suspect was killed because he was still an active threat, Jacobs replied “Do we have to be happy?”
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