How Democrats relentlessly dialed up violent rhetoric against Trump before assassination attempt - comparing him to Hitler | 14 July 2024 | Democrats’ rhetoric stoking fear and hatred against former President Donald Trump -- including repeated comparisons to Adolf Hitler -- is coming into a harsh new light following the assassination attempt against him on Saturday. Trump’s political opponents have long used incendiary language in response to his more controversial statements -- commonly casting him as a cartoon villain hellbent on bringing about the end of democracy itself. Their divisive statements frequently include tossing around words like "dictator" or making overt references to the Holocaust or Nazi Germany. Republicans now blame this very rhetoric for stoking the assassination attempt that got Trump shot and left a hero firefighter dead and two others critically wounded.