As the nation reels from a second attempt on Donald Trump’s life, many conservatives are pointing an accusatory finger at the media for their role in radicalizing much of the political left. The alleged attempted assassin, Ryan Wesley Routh, posted on X in 2024 of this year that “democracy” was “on the ballot” — a line that Democrats and their corporate media allies have been chanting for almost a year.
Back in 2019 when a lone gunman opened fire on Wal-Mart customers in El Paso, Texas, journalists started kicking around a fun new phrase to blame Trump for the bloodshed: “stochastic terrorism,” or the notion that one can incite political violence without ever explicitly calling for it.
In so many words, the claim back then was Trump intentionally caused the shooting by stoking tensions over illegal immigration. Supposed “experts” on this…
