Recent ghoulishness in character for left    

The hush that followed President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Dallas murder was a matter of universally shared basic decency. 

But that was then. Today, if a conservative GOP figure fell to a lunatic's bullets, leftists would freestyle on the coffin-lid. 

Weeks ago, the world watched in shock as Donald Trump sank to a Butler, Pennsylvania stage-floor. Blood spurted from an ear and crimson rivulets coursed across his cheek.

Fortunately, the attempted murder failed. And voices on all sides remained properly still. But only briefly. For unlike in the Kennedy example, 2024 political adversaries' restraint quickly faded. 

Only hours following, Jacqueline Marsaw, an aide to Mississippi Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson, said on X: "I don't condone violence, but please get you some shooting lessons so you don't miss next time ooops that wasn't me talking." 

In the face of outrage, Thompson fired Marsaw. But her vile sentiment may have reflected the congressman's own perspective; not long prior, he had drafted a bill that would have denied Trump Secret Service protection.

FBI employee Jenna Howell posted a Facebook meme that depicted the Grim Reaper at a claw-machine. "Awwww so close," read the caption. Howell was later reassigned to another FBI position -- not fired -- but only after public criticism.

Biased press outlets also contributed to the disgrace.

"Secret Service Rushes Trump Off Stage After He Falls At Rally," was a CNN headline. And "Trump May Not Have Been Shot After All," was a subsequent Newsweek article. (The title was later changed.)

Hollywood, too, had perpetrators.

On X, Star Wars actor Mark Hamill expressed cursory gratefulness Trump survived, but then leveraged the moment to attack the 45th president's stalwart NRA support. Hamill later ridiculed Trump's needed bandage.

In his own post-shooting X post, John Leguizamo giggled: "Not even a scratch! But milk it for all you can!" To that abhorrent message, he appended 'proof' - a Trump photo critics revealed dated from 2022. Free of shame, Leguizamo did not delete the fraud.

Add in numerous grassroots social media posters that ladled related perversity in heaping measures. Such poison-hearted cheerleaders do not sport "Make America Great Again" caps.

The left realized Trump was an inspirational martyr. That could imperil ballot-booth fortunes. The relish with which they then strived to deny him due respect -- even mocking his still-fresh wound -- demonstrated meagerness of good character.

But no observer can rightly claim astoundment. That many leftists now guffaw morbidness has precedent. For decades, the post-JFK Democrat Party has championed killing. That includes abortion with absolutely no restrictions on time or reasons. 

Advocates' refusal to accept any restrictions at all means, at their positions' logical extreme, even day-of-birth and post-birth killings would enjoy sanction. (Witness Democrat former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam).

With Democrats' ice-blooded approval, millions upon millions of babies have been slaughtered, including because of sex selection (are we China?), disability (such persons are undeserving of existence?), and selfish convenience (lifestyle preferences and career opportunities outweigh the wondrous Spark of Life?).

Post-JFK Democrats' urge to usher death also includes embrace of European-modeled assisted-suicide. Partisans sometimes euphemize it as the supposed "right to die." But it is just killing, and that's all it is.

Since the 1988 defeat of Michael Dukakis, Democrats speak little of opposition to the death penalty. I maintain my own contrariety and, though a dedicated Trump-backer since 2015, disagree with him on the matter.

Clear-visioned critics term the Democrat Party "the party of death." Given their happy jigs following the attempted Trump assassination, Democrats cannot protest the sobriquet is inaccurate.

Leftists' conviction is that mortals are ultimate arbiters of human life and that the secular State possesses supreme authority. Traditional liberals may hold to faith out of of habit, but they put the Divine in the back seat and let temporality do the driving.

When Trump heroically rose from that Butler stage, bloody but unbowed (to quote poet Henry), he thrust a clenched fist aloft and grimaced "Fight! Fight! Fight!" Tens of thousands at the site cheered thunderously. Surely, tens of millions glued to video screens across America did the same. 

"There was blood everywhere," Trump later told an RNC convention audience. "But I felt very safe because I had God on my side."

In that horrendous Butler moment, we all witnessed strength resilient despite murderous assault. Patriots stood united. Some ventured Trump won November's election that afternoon. Perhaps.

But a second lesson is that today's Democrat Party is not the one of JFK's time. Now, office-holding agitators' thirst for power shamefully surpasses their regard for human decency. 

That's between them, their consciences -- and American voters.