Q: Why can't we just turn down the heat?

A: Because the people who turned it up have nothing else to run on.

Since the attempted murder last Saturday of President Trump, we’ve been inundated with calls to “turn down the heat,” meaning that we should stop the sulfuric brickbats that, up to now, and through some lenses, have been the main inventory of the campaign.

Ronald Reagan was often mocked as a wahoo for thinking that the country’s problems had simpler answers than the graybeards in academia, journalism and pop culture were lecturing us about. Reagan’s unforgettable response is especially apt now: There are simple answers; there just aren’t easy answers.

So here’s the simple answer as to why the heat isn’t coming down. Those opposed to Trump have next to nothing left to campaign on. They also don’t give a hoot if they torch the country, for which they have very little use anyway. There’s not a whole lot more to it than that.

I mean, what exactly do they have? The economy? Inflation? Border chaos? Increasingly angry racial division (as the current administration remains incapable of letting go of anti-white and anti-Semitic DEI)? Third World encroachment, with its excrement and drug needles splashing into our cities and sidewalks? The bloodiest war in Europe since WWII? An exploding national debt that can’t possibly be paid off? Biden’s charisma and leadership? The popularity of his governance, now ranging between 32% (Pew) and 38% (Gallup)? The appalling direction of country (23.4% positive according to the RCP average)?

On the present state of play, Biden is headed for a loss, possibly a big one. This is God-awful news. I mean, a Democrat without a government job is like a normal person without a real job. (OK, sorry, the devil made me do it. I should confess that I had a government job for most of my career, then went into something even worse — academia).

Other than abortion, the campaign against Trump has consisted of one thing: Hate. The MSM won’t call it that, sure (it’s being largely the hate of their own creation), but when you fill the airwaves with dire (and need I say fabricated) claims that democracy is on its last legs, that DJT is a thinly-disguised dictator, a rapist, criminal and Hitler in orange hair, what exactly are we supposed to think?

Jonathan Turley has a good take on it in his piece here, titled, “The attempted assassination of Trump is not nearly as surprising as it should be.” Turley notes that the Left’s screeching has included:

…claims that Trump was set to kill democracy, unleash “death squads” and make homosexuals and reporters “disappear.”

President Biden has stoked this rage rhetoric. In 2022, Biden held his controversial speech before Independence Hall where he denounced Trump supporters as enemies of the people. Biden recently referenced the speech and has embraced the claims that this could be our last democratic election….

While most people reject the hyperbolic claims, others take them as true. They believe that homosexuals are going to be “disappeared” as claimed on ABC’s “The View” or that the Trump “death squads” are now green lighted by a conservative Supreme Court, as claimed by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow….

I guess this was the reason that Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative Supreme Court Justice, himself needed to be “disappeared” — an actual murder attempt by a pro-abortion zealot that, oddly, we seem to be hearing zero about just now.

As soon as Trump was elected, unhinged rage became the norm as with Kathy Griffin featuring herself holding the bloody severed head of Trump. 

Just recently, another celebrity, actress Lea DeLaria, begged Biden to “blow [Trump] up” after the recent presidential immunity decision. DeLaria explained that “this is a **** war. This is a war now, and we are fighting for our **** country. And these a**holes are going to take it away. They’re going to take it away.”

These are the people — they and their buddies one office down the hall at MSNBC or CNN or the WaPo — who are setting new world records for sanctimony in telling the rest of us to turn down the heat.

Still, the crowning touch, at least for today, is this gem, also reported by Prof. Turley. I swear I’m not making this up:

University of Virginia Assistant Professor Sethunya Mokoko took a break from teaching students to get the word out this week that the entire assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump was a staged event for suckers. Mokoko explained that it was just a ploy to get the votes of “idiots.” He, however, is available to offer sage-like clarity that the Secret Service, local police, and the Trump campaign conspired to fake the assassination, kill a bystander, and seriously wound others to get the sucker vote. He is not alone in this theory while others on the left are simply bemoaning that Thomas Matthew Crooks missed.

In his tweet, Mokoko said that security ”ignored [Crooks] because trump & secrete service staged theatrics to win idiots’ vote.”

So let me get the conspiracy down. The Secret Service allowed a kid who flunked out of the high school shooting club as a bad shot to fire multiple rounds at the former president from a sloped roof at 130 yards in the hope that he would only wing him?

Here’s the part that will surprise no one.

Mokoko previously taught at Clemson University, Gold West College, Long Beach City College and University of California, Long Beach, according to his Linkedin page.

His faculty bio states that Mokoko teaches “Race, Rhetoric, and Social Justice” and “Writing about Culture and Society.”

This fellow teaches at the University of Virginia, mind you, one of the best in the country………..or it was at one time.

My advice: Go to UNC.