It’s not about political policy. People with opposing policies don’t murder each other, no matter how much they disagree. You may tell me there are lefties on Twitter who do love murder, who openly call for the death of their opponents, those who rejoiced and made ugly snarks Saturday night after Trump was rushed from the rally in Pennsylvania.

The foul mouths on social media do say they want to murder their opponents, but they are, more or less, drones who are carrying out what they have been paid and programmed to say. Not that they don’t bear responsibility; they do, but they are what some call “useful idiots.” Perhaps a more charitable term is “tools.”

It’s been shown that those on the Left are more fearful than conservatives, more likely to comply with orders that have a fear driver. I suspect that has very much to do with a lack of faith in God, widespread in the Left. Without God, I would be fearful, too. Heck, I’m sometimes fearful now, but that is in my gut. My head and my heart balance out the fear with trust and love of God. We are blessed to have that faith, blessed beyond anything we can ever do to deserve it, and that comes with responsibility.

There are those on the Left with something like a religious component in their life—like the female Presbyterian pastor who wears a hot pink stole with the Planned Parenthood logo on it; or Biden, who keeps stubbornly presenting himself at Mass. I’m talking about biblical faith, not a religiously-scented performance for an audience.

Among people I would call my compatriots, there may be anger, there may be fear, there may even be recklessness, but there are imposed limits on behavior. Saturday night, scrolling the updates on Twitter, I was furious in every cell of my body. I think my bone marrow was sizzling; but there is a God-given moderator inside that says, all the while I’m raging, “Don’t go there. Anger is a rational response to an attack, but you can’t abandon yourself to it. You have to answer to God.”

And when I went to Mass Sunday morning, I was grateful for those limits.

Among the Left, there are few such limits. What I read on Twitter from those who hate Trump with an irrational intensity nauseated me. The words people say make them sound like devils, rough approximations of human beings, with something essential sucked out of them.

So, let me move from the tools who have so disgraced themselves on social media and ask, instead, why? Who profits from a whole mass of robotic hate machines, all targeted on one man like a laser guidance system?

It’s not politics. The Left is snarky and dismissive of all conservatives, but their hatred for Trump is on another level. The number of leftists who have openly called for the murder of Donald Trump, in public and in print, and then been applauded by their tools, is staggering: politicians, actors, sports figures, and random “influencers” who are paid to talk filth.

We have a swarm of people in this country who would regard a high-level assassination as a reason for a rave. They are driven by those who must prevent the election of Donald Trump at all costs. Do you see? If they just opposed his politics, we’d be looking at debates, editorials, endorsements, things that civilized people do. Instead, we have sociopaths (and psychopaths, to judge from my Twitter feed) who are calling for his death with subrational fury.

Why? The answer to that question is the key to everything. What must be preserved at all costs? What must be hidden from view? What is at risk from a loss of absolute power? In a normal election cycle, when the opposing candidate wins, the other party regroups and begins to plan the next campaign. They don’t meet like night riders in hoods to plan executions.

What is so valuable that an organized ambush of ten million invaders is necessary to preserve it? What is so imperative that we have to send $60 billion in Ukrainian “aid” to hide? Why is Trump such a threat that his supporters are not worth a plugged nickel? What is worth starting a nuclear war for?

We must ask these questions, and there are answers. As much as the high wizards may look like demons to us, they have reasons for what they’re trying to engineer. Until we discover why, we’ll keep being victims in a war we don’t want. Until we discover why, they’ll keep brainwashing children away from their families, importing mayhem from the Southern border, and imprisoning (or disappearing) those who call them out.

I think I’ve just said where we need to begin to look for answers. Ukraine. Children. We can’t wait for traditional journalists with editorial resources to uncover the answers; they are owned and operated by the perpetrators. It will have to be independent journalists, who have little funding, virtually no political “juice” to help them investigate, and reputations mostly newly-minted since 2020. And when they uncover something, they’ll endure ridicule because we won’t be able to comprehend or stomach the level of evil that is being hidden, which Trump is apparently capable of stopping.

I don’t know the answers. I do know that there are ruthless people determined to stop anyone who could expose them, and that person seems to be Donald Trump. If we don’t press for the answer to the why, no matter how much it may horrify and sicken us, we will pay. Our children will pay. We’re on the precipice.