"The Hunt"

The latest shootings out of El Paso and Dayton are underlining the hypocrisy on the left. While President Trump's rhetoric is being blamed for the El Paso massacre, nobody is blaming Elizabeth Warren and her rhetoric for the event in Dayton, allegedly carried out by some crazy guy who supports her own populist candidacy.

But it gets worse. This week Joaquin Castro, twin brother and campaign manager of Democrat presidential candidate Julian Castro, knowing full well how tense the political environment is, goes out and publishes names of Trump supporters in San Antonio. If someone on his list is killed or assaulted, will the media blame Castro? Not likely.

But this has to take the cake: Hollywood, always front and center blaming Trump and his rhetoric for anything that goes wrong, is coming out with a movie called "The Hunt". This gem, from Universal, depicts people rounding up their (conservative) political opponents, who are called "Deplorables", a term coined by Hillary Clinton, and organizing a "hunt" to track them and kill them.

But you won't hear anybody in Hollywood protest, nor will you hear the mainstream news media suggest that crap like this might lead to bloodshed.

This week, the usual band of left-wing crazies showed up in front of Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell's house in the dead of night to keep him and his neighbors awake. Some are calling for violence agisnt him. But if that becomes a reality, will the left examine its own rhetoric? Not a chance.

And if, God forbid, President Trump were assassinated, would the left and the media examine the more than two years of vitriol directed at him as contributing factors? How about the lunatic rants of UC Riverside professor Reza Aslan in the wake of El Paso?

Nobody is defending what happened in El Paso or Dayton. Nor do I blame Warren for what the Dayton shooter did. Trump's words may often be deserving of criticism, and he is certainly divisive, but we live in a badly divided country, and he has never called for violence against anybody. Just because he responds in kind to the never-ending attacks against him does not make him responsible for what some crazy guy did in El Paso.