Trump Rally Gunman Was ‘Definitely Conservative,’ Classmate Recalls

A lot of conservatives think trrmp is a traitor, too.

I mean, they should. The evidence provides.

But they usually think he betrayed the extremes of their bigotries rather than the country and general decency.

They also said he was a terrible shot.

I'm not even kidding. He tried out for the school shooting club and they asked him not to come back because they considered his poor shooting and gun handling dangerous.

“It makes me wonder why he would carry out an assassination attempt on the conservative candidate.”

Trump is the Republican candidate, but anyone young enough to actually believes in conservative talking points would not see him as a conservative candidate and would see him as a threat to the party.

Who's to say he didn't just want to die and take someone important out with him. In the mental state he was in at the time, he may not have even cared about politics.

It was a horrible incident and there is no room for violence in politics…

That said, I am relieved to know that the shooter is neither an immigrant nor a person of color, or a trans person. And not someone on the left. The violent backlash from the right would be unbearable/unthinkable otherwise.

But, rifles are an old way of doing things, and predict that there will be more political violence through the next years.

And not one Republican or prominent journalist will point out that this is mostly due to the decade of rhetoric from the conservatives that political violence is the answer.

So…. Why then? Was he one of those rare conservatives that don’t like Trump? I think I’ve only ever met maybe one or two.

First: As conservatives love bible quotes: Hosea 8,7: "They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind." Boy, did Trump sow wind everywhere. And Thomas Crooks simply was the whirlwind this time.

Second: Each and every year, about 50,000 people in the US die from guns, and politics f-ing does not care. Because they love the money from arms manufaturers and votes from the gun nuts more than the mostly innocent people who die. But once the wrong asshole gets his ear nicked by a bullet, they suddenly fall over themselves condemning violence.

One good deed does not redeem the entire sect

My money is the kid saw the 2025 agenda and despite being a conservative leaning person was still appalled at the idea people would vote for a fascist again.

But the investigators say he “had no strongly held political beliefs”.

IOW he’s republican and they don’t want to broadcast it?

Not saying the guy wasn't, but I'm pretty sure my former classmates would recall me as very conservative, and I changed a lot.

I'm not sure why Trump-scale neofeudalistic reformist would be called conservative.

Yeah. That's why he tried to assassinate the conservative candidate, right? Trying to associate someone who was mentally broken enough to attempt murder to an entire political bloc is missing the entire point.