Melania Trump urges unity and moving beyond political divides after Donald Trump’s shooting
Of all the words uttered since Donald Trump was nearly felled by an assassin’s bullet and tragedy struck his rally in Pennsylvania, the most profound came from his wife, the former First Lady Melania Trump.
The words she wrote a few hours after watching “that violent bullet strike my husband” met this spiritual moment when madness is afoot and the world seems more dangerous than ever.
You could hear the voice of the immigrant who understands America’s intrinsically gentle nature, and appreciates the “courage and common sense” of its people.
“I am thinking of you, now, my fellow Americans. We have always been a unique union. America, the fabric of our gentle nation is tattered, but our courage and common sense must ascend and bring us back together as one,” she said.
Born in 1970 in then-communist Slovenia, Melania has a tough-minded insight into the nature of the dehumanizing “political machine” she writes about.
Her Central European country has had more than its fair share of war and radicalization, civil discord and ancient tribal hatreds. It was hostage to the political whims of the Great Powers through two world wars, suffered through Stalinist repression, persecution of Catholic clergy, concentration camps and show trials.
So she speaks with the bitter knowledge of her country’s tragic past, and while she doesn’t say so, she must recognize the violence of the left in the escalating attacks on her husband.
“Let us not forget that differing opinions, policy, and political games are inferior to love,” she writes. “Our personal, structural, and life commitment — until death — is at serious risk. Political concepts are simple when compared to us, human beings. We are all humans, and fundamentally, instinctively, we want to help one another.”
She added, “Let us remember that when the time comes to look beyond the left and the right, beyond the red and the blue, we all come from families with the passion to fight for a better life together, while we are here, in this earthly realm.”
She understood the stakes better than most Americans as she watched her husband endure political prosecutions, ritual denunciation, impeachments, hoaxes, censorship and now an attempted assassination.
Again she refrains from stating the obvious but most Americans, if they are honest, can see that political violence is hardwired into the Democrat playbook.
Demonization
We see that in Joe Biden’s call last week for a “bull’s-eye” to be placed on Trump.
Or Jill Biden’s claim at a campaign rally in Georgia last Monday that Trump is “evil.”
Or LinkedIn co-founder and megabucks Democrat donor Reid Hoffman’s declaration on Friday: “I wish I had made him an actual martyr” when the lawfare he funded failed to take Trump out of the race.
You see it in the Democrats’ relentless demonization of Trump, reducing him to a gargoyle hate-figure incapable of humanity, rather than a father of five well-adjusted adult children who adore him.
You see it when The New York Times brands Trump a traitor who “betrayed America” across the entire black cover of its Sunday editorial section, hours after he was almost assassinated.
That has been the drumbeat across Democrat-friendly media for eight years. It was only a matter of time before an unhinged person took them seriously.
The hateful rhetoric and political violence come from the anti-Trump side, despite the media attempts at moral equivalency.
They control the political temperature dial and they have turned it up to lethal levels, with the attempted assassinations of Trump, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Rep. Steve Scalise three recent manifestations.
“When I watched that violent bullet strike my husband, Donald, I realized my life, and Barron’s life, were on the brink of devastating change,” Melania wrote.
“A monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine attempted to ring out [extinguish] Donald’s passion — his laughter, ingenuity, love of music, and inspiration. The core facets of my husband’s life — his human side — were buried below the political machine. Donald, the generous and caring man who I have been with through the best of times and the worst of times.”
For a private, dignified woman who stayed silent as she was goaded and mocked by the media throughout her husband’s presidency, this public declaration of tenderness was a surprising glimpse into a marriage whose intimate aspects have been the subject of vicious speculation.
The world saw the true character of Donald Trump on that bloodied stage on Saturday, after a bullet nicked his ear, a hair’s breadth from annihilation.
Blood running across his face, as his Secret Service detail rushed him off stage he stopped and faced his crowd who had witnessed the horror and thought he was dead. He raised his fist to show he was unbowed. “Fight, fight, fight” as they chanted, “USA USA USA.”
He is the rare warrior leader in history who provides the “peace through strength” that balanced people crave, and unserious people don’t understand.
That is who Melania Trump loves, and it takes a warrior wife to deal with such a husband because the traits of the super alpha can make ordinary life challenging.
She let her guard down in her statement as a gift of love to the husband she almost lost and to the country she seeks to comfort.
It really is a love letter to America and a glimpse of what can be.
“Dawn is here again. Let us reunite . . . ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence. We all want a world where respect is paramount, family is first, and love transcends.”
Her appeal to unity and a common humanity is what voters craved in 2020 when Biden offered them a counterfeit version.
The Trumps are offering the real deal in November. It is the only way to pull us back from the looming threat of a world war and nuclear Armageddon. Those are the stakes, and we should be grateful for miracles.
