Imagine you’re running a small rafting business in the quiet hills of Western North Carolina. Life’s pretty simple—paddle, eat, sleep, repeat. That is, until one day, a man drives up from Atlanta, sees your pro-Trump banner, and decides that free speech is now punishable by gunfire.
No, this isn’t a deleted scene from some dystopian Netflix series. This really happened.
Benjamin Campbell, a peach-state progressive with a serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, allegedly tore down a Trump banner outside the Paddle Inn Rafting Company and then opened fire on the business owner, Mark Thomas. Thomas, who had spotted Campbell on his security cameras, responded by firing two warning shots into the air. Campbell, demonstrating the kind of restraint we’ve come to expect from the unhinged left, returned fire—from the road.
Let that sink in. A man drove across state lines, not to protest, not to debate, but to literally shoot at someone for supporting the President of the United States. And yet, you probably haven’t heard a peep about it from the national media. CNN? Busy recycling January 6th footage for ratings. MSNBC? Still hunting for Russian bots in the Arizona desert. The New York Times? Too busy giving op-eds to climate activists who think gas stoves are weapons of mass destruction.
But if this had been reversed—if a Trump supporter had driven up to a Biden sign and started shooting—you can bet your last gas-powered dollar that it would be a national crisis. There’d be candlelight vigils, congressional hearings, and probably a Netflix docuseries narrated by Michelle Obama.
Instead, we get silence. Crickets. Maybe a few tweets from conservative accounts like Libs of TikTok, who called it exactly what it is: an epidemic of left-wing violence.
Of course, the left doesn’t want to talk about this. Why would they? It pokes a hole straight through their carefully crafted narrative that all political violence comes from “the far-right.” Never mind the Molotov cocktails at federal buildings, the mobs in Portland, or the Antifa goon squads running dress rehearsals for chaos. No, no—the real threat, we’re told, is that guy in a MAGA hat who just wants to grill burgers and keep his tax cuts.
And make no mistake, this isn’t just about one unhinged guy with a bad aim and worse politics. This is about a culture that has been fed a steady diet of rage by Democratic leaders, Hollywood elites, and legacy media hacks who treat Trump supporters like a threat to democracy instead of, well, fellow Americans with a different opinion.
This is what happens when political disagreement gets rebranded as “hate speech,” when free expression is seen as “violence,” and when actual violence is spun as “mostly peaceful.”
And here’s the kicker: Trump still has over three years left in his second term. If the left is already cracking now, what happens when he starts getting serious about cleaning house at DOJ, rolling back the climate cult’s green fantasies, and finishing the wall?
The left’s already melting down—and we’re not even halfway through. So buckle up. We’re not just witnessing a political comeback. We’re watching a psychological unraveling.
The real question is: how many more Mark Thomases will it take before the media admits which side is really embracing political violence?