There are hazardous jobs, from the rottweiler trainer to the circus tightrope walker, from the bomb disposal expert to the undercover policeman in South American narcos gangs, from the test pilot to the conservative politician. Yep, because put one in a row are quite a few episodes in which a “right-wing” politician (or otherwise not perfectly aligned with the single front of globalism) has ended up in the crosshairs of conspiracies, “”strange” incidents or madmen on the loose.
Even if one were to take into account even the last 30 years, i.e., the era of post-ideology, globalism and single thought, the number of conservative, populist, nationalist politicians made the target of attacks is significant, while on the other side there is not at all the same, epidemic incidence of deaths, hospitalizations, or even just material threats (to say nothing of the conspiracy theories around the good number of road accidents that have involved several right-wing politicians actively or passively, from Nigel Farage to Jörg Haider, from the leghista Gianluca Buonanno to Victor Orban during a visit to Stuttgart last May... but of course these are just coincidences).
All of course while the liberal front is just squawking with each passing day at “fascism” and “squadrism,” “violence,” “hate speech,” and of course the “free gun issue” (this, of course, only in America. Here in Italy - fortunately! - they are banned and in fact there have never been such things as a prime minister being kidnapped by an armed commando...).
Here then is a list, incomplete but significant.
Donald Trump
The assassination attempt on Tramp (manga dramatization).
Last case in chronological order, it is also the one that made well-meaning leftists rediscover conspiracy theory. Only, exactly as with memes, the left does not get along very well with conspiracy theory and confuses more solito a personal worldview with factual reality. Yet, with one dead yet to be buried and two wounded in the hospital, many of the liberals inside and outside the U.S. continue to respond to interviews that Butler's shooting would be “staged,” a “sham.” With the corollary that “surely it's staged, however too bad the fake shooter didn't really hit the target.”
Shinzō Abe
Shinzō Abe
On July 8, 2022, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe was assassinated by two gunshots during an election rally. Abe had been the leading figure in the Empire's conservative revival attempt, with policies for demographics without opening to immigration and rediscovering national tradition. He had also opened up the possibility of a constitutional revision that would return complete sovereignty to the country even in the field of Defense. His anti-covid policy, with the early revocation of the state of emergency, was also too half-hearted. In fact, in August 2020 Abe was forced to resign, officially for health reasons, unofficially for some minor scandal (the kind that would not even make the local news in our country). His successor, Yoshihide Suga, has been much more attentive to WHO directives. Currently, there is a government in Japan that appears somewhat sensitive to open borders to immigration and has increased military spending but without that obnoxious Abe-era claim to the country's political independence. It is interesting that current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was also the target of a botched assassination attempt on April 15, 2023, but the fuzzy motives of the bomber who hurled an explosive pipe at him seem entirely personal.
Robert Fico
Robert Fico
On May 15, 2024, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot four times in the torso by a certain Juraj Cintula. Fortunately, he survived the attack, despite the particularly serious condition he was in. Fico, a longtime politician, is one of the main pillars of the Visegrad Front: critical of Europe and the WHO and hostile to the redistribution of immigrants, especially Muslims. He has also distanced himself from the more anti-Russian policies of Brussels and has excellent relations with Orban's Hungary. After recovering from a medically induced coma, he mocked the leftist media and the opposition with a resounding “Sorry that I survived, but I'm back”. Especially interesting is the profile of the bomber given by these media, including by us in Italy, who portrayed him as a “poet,” a “pacifist,” and a “nonviolent.” All that was missing was “saint at once.”
Pim Fortuyn
Pim Fortuyn
A peculiar figure, a conservative homosexual who later converted to Catholicism, Pim Fortuyn believed that the Netherlands should close its borders to immigration and above all appeal to its national identity against Islam. He was assassinated on May 6, 2002, by a fanatical environmentalist, animal activist and vegan, Volkert van der Graaf, who acted “in defense of Dutch Muslims.” Holland's Muslim population had grown from 1 percent in the 1970s to nearly 5 percent in 2000.
Steve Scalise
Steve Scalise
A Republican congressman of Italian descent, Steve Scalise was gunned down during a baseball game on June 14, 2017 by James Hodgkinson, a left-wing extremist already known to law enforcement for domestic violence. Hodgkinson's profile is that of the perfect Manchurian Candidate: a small business owner with a few minor convictions, he had closed his business six months before the bombing and had been reduced to living like a homeless man in his car, radicalizing himself in hatred against Trump and Republicans, a hatred manifested on social media and in the media. During the attack on Scalise, Hodgkinson was fatally shot by police. Scalise, by contrast, is an uncompromising conservative politician: an opponent of immigration, LGBT (etc. etc.) instances, gun control, and climate hysteria. One university professor, commenting on the attack, said, “let white people fucking die”.
Jair Bolsonaro
Jair Bolsonaro
Called the “Trump of Brazil,” Bolsonaro on September 6, 2018 was stabbed during an election rally in Juiz de Fora by a deranged man. The attack caused him to bleed into his intestines, fortunately arrested in time. Bolsonaro, despite the fact that his policies were in so many ways at odds with the diktats of globalism, was heavily attacked at home and abroad just for being “right-wing.” Remarkably, as soon as he was ousted from power with Lula's return to Brasilia, the Carioca country immediately leggi filo-vacciniste più dure del mondoaligned with WHO directives with some of the harshest pro-vaccine laws in the world, while prosecutors went on a rampage to permanently remove him from Brazil's political life.
David Amess
David Amess
Less fortunate, instead, was David Anthony Andrew Amess, who was stabbed to death by a Somali on October 15, 2021. A Conservative MP in London's lower house, Amess did not have a particularly edgy profile: an animal rights activist, generically anti-abortion and conservative, he voted in 2003 in favor of the invasion of Iraq, only to regret the choice later. Instead, in '13 he opposed British intervention against Syria. However, his friendship for Israel and Jews earned him the hatred of his killer, a radicalized “lone wolf” named Ali Harbi Ali, an ISIS sympathizer. Amess is virtually unknown abroad, especially when compared to Jo Cox, the Labor MP whose murder at the hands of a deranged man was used as a propaganda tool on the eve of the Brexit referendum on June 16, 2016.
Silvio Berlusconi
Berlusconi subito dopo l’attentato
During a rally in Milan on December 13, 2009, Silvio Berlusconi was violently struck in the face by a heavy souvenir in the shape of Milan Cathedral thrown by a certain Massimo Tartaglia. Berlusconi was enjoying a river of people at the end of the rally and was brutally injured. His expression of painful surprise in the moments immediately after the attack and the reactions of the most radically anti-Berlusconi slice of public opinion are one of the most telling photographs of the climate of hatred created against conservative politicians. This was not even the first time the Cav. had been attacked. On Dec. 31, 2004, a young man from Mantua threw a camera tripod at him while he was walking in Piazza Navona, Rome, striking him in the neck.
Editor of the Centro Studi Machiavelli “Belfablog,” Emanuele Mastrangelo is editor-in-chief of “CulturaIdentità” and has been editor-in-chief of “Storia in Rete” since 2006. A military-historical cartographer, he is the author of several books (with Enrico Petrucci, Iconoclastia. La pazzia contagiosa della cancel culture che sta distruggendo la nostra storia e Wikipedia. L'enciclopedia libera e l'egemonia dell'informazione).
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