A Day of Reckoning & Resolve:
July 13th, 2024
Yesterday, July 13th, is a day I will remember in history forever—a day of both sadness and relief juxtaposed with panic, anger, happiness, realization, shock, anxiety, and an inability to sleep at night.
First, I want to share my condolences with Corey Comperatore’s family. All I can think about is their excitement to go to the rally together as a family, only to be met with a stolen and irreplaceable father and husband and an immeasurable amount of grief. There are not enough words that we as a nation can share to comfort them in their time of immense sadness, but we can recognize that Corey was a hero. He not only was a hero to his town as a fire chief, but most importantly, he was a hero to his family, shielding his wife and children from certain death. His sacrifice for their safety should never go unrecognized.
I now want to move on to other difficult matters, as yesterday not only rattled me to my core but taught me something. There are people not only in our country, not only in our communities, but within the circle of our “friends” and our family, who lack a necessary component of being human—compassion. Yesterday, I unsurprisingly found much support in my online friends who have formed my cyber circle. But in real, tangible life, I found others who I barely recognized. Shells of people who found it amusing to mock and ridicule the events of yesterday. I heard that:
- It was staged.
- It’s just a hoax.
- Those secret service agents were probably pouring blood on him while he was on the ground.
- I bet the family of the dead attendee will care about gun control now.
- Awww man, they missed. Idiots.
This type of behavior, this mockery regarding human life, is something that I will never forget. At first, I was so angry. I wanted to distance myself and cry about it, but I couldn’t because I was so infuriated. I put myself in their shoes, if it had been their candidate, and wondered if I would have said the same horrible and disgusting things about Joe Biden and one of his supporters. But no, I don’t have that kind of cruelty in me.
And it opened my eyes. After a night of fitful sleep, I realized that today, as angry as I was yesterday, we have to show compassion to these people. We don’t need to forget, and I am not telling you to forgive. But we have to show that in the face of vile comments, in the face of absolute uncertainty and horror, we rise above.
It was Divine Intervention that saved President Trump—an imperceptible shift, a breath of wind, a moment of inaccuracy, mere centimeters that changed the course of history. If that doesn’t make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, then you don’t understand the magnitude of what was at stake yesterday. We do not have time to dwell on the what-ifs; instead, we must focus on our future. But yesterday, it was as if I was living out two parallel universes. I knew that the bullet had missed him, but for a while, I couldn’t believe it was true. I was so concerned that somehow I was in some fever dream where maybe the news was wrong. Maybe he had been hit more catastrophically. But as the night wore on, confirmations of his well-being poured in from his inner circle.
We were a hair’s breadth from a completely different and scarier reality than we hoped was possible. We knew it could happen, but we hoped that it would never come to this—that people would put aside their hatred for a man that the media has painted as corrupt. It is so important that we note how horribly they inflate what Trump says and stands for.
It’s so hard for me to explain what I wish I could do. I wish, number one, I had people in my life who were willing to listen without judgment. That is something that will forever be a rarity in this country now conditioned to divide. Second, I wish I could go through policy with them. I wish I could show the facts of what policies were actually wanting to be put in place and those that were enacted when Trump was in his first term. And thirdly, I wish I could show the receipts over all the years of the media twisting those words and policies into something so ugly and devoid of truth that if I believed in mainstream media, I would probably hate him too.
But what they have done is spent eight years perfecting the craft of demonizing Donald J. Trump. They have found phrases they could gnarl and stories they could concoct that would scare people. But scaring was no longer enough, so they kept going, kept adding fear-mongering elements and despicably evil symbolism to their messages to turn that fear into a hate so desperate and vicious that people would turn on their own family members and friends.
If you learn anything from yesterday, let it be that the media did this to our fellow countrymen. The media and corrupt politicians poisoned the minds of our loved ones. And how can we fight hate that is so demented and ignorant? We fight it with love. We open up our hearts, and we show what it means to be an American. We show what it means to FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! To be resilient. To stand in the way of hateful verbal bullets and take it with our fist in the air. We love them with compassion and room in our hearts. Because this is no longer a fight between party lines. It has been, and now cemented in history, always will be a fight of good versus evil. A fight of spirit and love and kindness against cruelty and turmoil.
We have been wrongly accused of being hateful, spiteful people, but now, now is the time that we prove that the tables have turned. We are not the ones laughing and wishing death. We are the ones holding onto the spirit of America with every limb as we try to pour light over our country that has been divided by darkness.
God bless President Trump and his family, and God bless the United States of America.
– F.W
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