Who just firebombed the North Carolina Republican Party office? Hint: probably not the Democrats
Just when it seemed the 2016 election couldn’t get any more chaotic or harrowing, a Republican Party office in North Carolina was vandalized and firebombed to the point of destruction on Sunday evening. Fortunately no one was injured, because no one was working at the time. Within minutes, Donald Trump claimed – without any evidence – that the violent attack was carried out by supporters of Hillary Clinton. But whoever was behind this, it probably wasn’t any Democrat, or anyone supporting Clinton. Instead the logic points elsewhere.
Why do I say this? Simple logical deduction. Donald Trump’s candidacy is unraveling by the day and is now on a near certain path to losing badly on election day Further, his ongoing meltdown is dragging down the Republican Party’s efforts in House and Senate races across the nation. With the Democrats so clearly in the driver’s seat, there would simply be no reason for anyone supporting the Democrats to have been behind this attack. However, there are others who would have plenty to gain by carrying out this particular kind of attack at this time.
Donald Trump has recently escalated his ongoing war with the Republican Party to new levels, repeatedly launching verbal assaults on his own party’s national leaders, as his campaign cut off the Republican chairman in Ohio entirely. Trump has also unraveled to the point that he’s been seen physically ripping his teleprompter to shreds during a rally speech on one day, and demanding that Hillary Clinton be drug tested the next, even as his surrogates openly call for violence if he loses the election.
With such a clear fault line having formed between Trump and the Republican Party, it makes no sense that any Democrat would now be attacking a Republican Party office and vandalizing it with a phrase such as “Nazi Republicans leave town or else.” Even if some Democratic lone wolf did snap, such an attack would have been leveled at a Trump campaign headquarters, not at a GOP headquarters. Further, this attack took place in a district where registered Democrats dominate, meaning the Republican Party doesn’t have much of meaningful presence to begin with. This is one of the last Republican Party offices that a Democrat would be likely to target.
And if this was the work of a madman trying to inflict terror on the Republican Party, it would likely have been committed while there were people inside. If anything, the choice of Sunday afternoon – when everyone knows that no one is likely to be working in an office – suggests that this attack was plotted with the intention of making sure that no one was harmed. That points to some kind of inside job.
This attack in North Carolina also comes just a few days after the Donald Trump campaign announced it was pulling out of Virginia and shifting those resources to North Carolina instead. What better way for the Trump campaign to change the narrative in the swing state, which it’s currently losing but appears to have figured that it must win, than to paint its own party as the victim of a vile firebombing attack?
None of this is enough to outright accuse the Donald Trump campaign, or even Trump’s supporters, of being behind this attack. But it sure does work out conveniently for them. Couple this with the fact that Trump himself almost immediately fired back with what was an unusually carefully crafted response – “Animals representing Hillary Clinton and Dems in North Carolina just firebombed our office in Orange County because we are winning” – right down to falsely claiming that he’s winning the state when the numbers say he’s losing it – and it gets more suspicious by the minute.
And because Donald Trump has been (meekly and ineffectually) borrowing strategies from Adolf Hitler’s playbook throughout his 2016 campaign, it’s worth pointing out that some historians believe Hitler had his own Reichstag burned down so he could claim it was an outside attack and use it as an excuse to suspend civil liberties and assume greater power for himself. Here we have a mere firebombing of an empty office which Trump is now trying to use as a rallying cry in a state that he and his campaign just decided this week that they absolutely must win.
In that sense, within the increasingly violent and psychotic context of the unraveling of Donald Trump and what’s left of his campaign, it’s fair to at least ask the question of whether Trump or his minions might have been behind this. It makes no sense that any Democrat would have done this. This attack can only stand to have benefited Trump and no one else. Draw whatever conclusions you see fit.
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