Rising from the pile of frantic Secret Service agents shielding Donald Trump from further attack, the former president raised his fist in defiance. Screaming “Fight, fight, fight!” he electrified the world with his triumphant courage under fire.

The already chaotic 2024 presidential campaign exploded in a Butler, Pennsylvania, bloodbath Saturday afternoon with a homegrown assassin’s bullet tearing through Trump’s ear as he stood before a podium addressing a cheering crowd. A Trump supporter in the bleachers died from a head shot while two others suffered serious wounds. A police sniper terminated the 20-year-old white male suburban shooter.

Divine intervention, Trump told a reporter the following day.

Trump’s holier-than-thou hosanna set the stage for this week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, still a traditional blue-collar American city where 40 percent of the people claim German ancestry. Bratwursts, pretzels and oompah music provide a beery backdrop to a heartland of patriotism heralding hard work, conservative family values and stubborn nationalist pride.

Throughout the week the faithful will unfurl a sea of American eagle embossed banners. Brass trumpets will pay tribute to America’s boldest military commander. Flag-wavers will rally behind America’s future tyrannical ruler whom tens of millions of loyal supporters nationwide (perhaps tens of millions more since Saturday) praise for unwavering leadership and guidance only rivaled by God.

Maybe it’s simply providence that Trump’s very own running mate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, once called Trump “America’s Hitler.”

With bucolic western Pennsylvania as a butchered backdrop, we who live and vote in the Commonwealth no longer serve as one of three crucial swing states. Pennsylvania voters will now lead the nation and send Trump back to the White House. For the record, we are home to the most residents of German American descent in the United States. Add Irish American voters prone to prejudice and the November election is a clean sweep for the GOP. The majority of an angry red United States will follow our lead.

Hail Trump.

I see no way for Democrats to avoid a Trump landslide victory. These elite pampered fools set the stage for their own defeat and the unbridled revenge to come in our twisted America. Democratic arrogance and mockery of working-class pain positioned these jackasses for defeat. Make no mistake about the possibility of imminent reactionary public policies. Despite all the recent talk from both mainstream political parties of dialing back the hate, Trump has already promised retribution.

People who inhabit Trump’s fatherland expect more payback than ever. Who knows how many men, women and children who attended the killer Butler rally hunger to get even with countless traitors to the cause? The assassination attempt only increased Trump’s authoritarian commitment to fight Democrats and liberals of any stripe, people Trump and his army target as true enemies of the people.

Good old-fashioned Second Amendment gunfire sealed the deal.

The deal?

What’s the deal, as President Joe Biden likes to say?

Here’s the deal: Responding to the assassination attempt, Biden gave up his re-election fight Sunday night as he sat pale and staring at a single camera during his bare Oval Office address, nebulizing a more human vision of tomorrow, shredding clarity into uncertainty. America’s president sacrificed his leadership on bended knee to marauding political barbarians at the White House gate who know the way in because they’ve been there before.

Biden quit.

In a nation awash in the blood of past assassinated presidents, Biden even forgot some of the most horrific American history that he of all people should keep at the forefront of his mind.

“But the idea — the idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of,” Biden said Saturday night.

Unheard of?

The weeping ghosts of Lincoln and Kennedy alone should have been screaming in Biden’s head when he garbled history and lost track of his own assassinated presidential ancestors. Yet, he continued to whimper against the backdrop of an invisible white flag of surrender, frozen like a pale boxer sitting on his stool in the corner of the lonely ring, unable to answer the bell for the final round.

Democrats quickly backed off trying to push Biden off the ticket. Corporate media elites backed off making even legitimate criticism of Trump and his minions who will nonetheless continue portraying Democrats as vicious haters all the while ramping up their own symbolic assaults on Biden and his servile supporters.

No Democratic nominee, including Vice President Kamala Harris, can beat Trump. Prove me wrong, Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton. Prove me wrong U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, my timid Scranton neighbor who for years has refused to sit with me for an interview. Prove me wrong opportunistic defense contractor puppet and Congressman Matt Cartwright who also refuses to talk with me as a constituent and veteran journalist.

Come November all these political aristocrats, along with crude slob U.S. Sen John Fetterman and Pennsylvania warmonger Zionist Gov. Josh Shapiro, will have helped their Democratic colleagues lose control of the U.S. House and Senate.

When the gun smoke cleared Trump rose like the mythic phoenix rising from the ashes. Even facing the deadliest obstacles Trump stands ready to issue orders and deal with those who disobey his commandments. When Trump ascended in triumph that fateful day in Pennsylvania with blood streaming down his face, countless voters behind him ascended as well. When Trump raised his fist, they raised their fists. When Trump resurrected, their hopes soared.

Trump’s gutsy crimson drama captured on countless videos will play across America until Election Day and beyond. Trump and his legions who love him will watch the replay again and again. Frenzied by the attack, their faith in Trump and his vision will surge.

When Trump emerges as victor expect a powerful new breed ready, willing and able to punish any betrayer who opposes their master’s mission to make America great again. Expect our sacred republic’s reawakened vengeful horde to watch us more closely than ever.

They’ll watch me.

They’ll watch you.

For us, it’s mourning in America.

For them, the future offers a brave new world.