Democrats such as Beto O'Rourke, Joe Biden and others almost too numerous to mention are blaming President Trump for the mass murder in an El Paso WalMart last weekend.
The president's attempts to uphold the immigration laws of this country and to prevent our borders from being overrun by tens of thousands of illegal immigrants is said to be the reason why the young psychopath who gunned down twenty two innocent people did what he did.
He was animated by Trump's rhetoric, the left insists, with absolutely no compelling evidence to support their slander.
Before the bodies had even been removed from the site of the slaughter Democrat politicians were fund-raising off the horrible deaths of the victims and the grief of their families, while also exploiting the tragedy to advance a political vendetta against the president.
This is, of course, despicable, but to actually blame Mr. Trump for the massacre is not only despicable but incredibly stupid.
The Democrats seeking to use the atrocity for their own political advantage seem too dimwitted to understand that if blame is to be assigned it's just as easy to make the case that the young perpetrator was driven to madness by his seething frustration at the abject refusal of Democrats to enforce the laws of the land and secure our nation's borders. It could as plausibly be argued that Democrat contempt for the law stoked the young man's sense of his own helplessness and fueled his hatred and anger, driving him to an act of horrible cruelty and irrationality.
That narrative makes at least as much sense as the left's mindless refrain that "It's all Trump's fault."
It's worth noting in passing that progressives will twist themselves into all sorts of rhetorical contortions to avoid giving Trump credit for the booming economy, but they'll eagerly blame him on the thinnest of evidence or on no evidence at all for the insane iniquities of some evil lunatic.
Meanwhile, some in the media have been lucubrating, as they always do after these massacres, over what the killers all have in common in order that their motivations might be better understood and such terrors more effectively forestalled in the future.
All sorts of possibilities have been adduced: the shooters are invariably male, often white, loners, disaffected, traumatized, alienated, etc.
All of this may be true, but there are two possible commonalities I'd like to see researched but which I have little confidence the progressive media would be interested in pursuing.
I suspect, but don't claim to know, that almost all of the mass shooters, especially the younger ones, firstly, have either a terrible relationship with their father or no relationship with him at all.
I also suspect, but don't claim to know, that they also have a terrible relationship, or no relationship at all, with God.
I'd love to read the statistics on this if anyone has done the digging, but I rather doubt that anyone has. It's not the sort of thing that most of our betters in elite progressive circles care to think about much less investigate.
