Letters that begin “Dear World” generally foreshadow something ominous. Ryan Wesley Routh imagined his note detailing why he plotted to murder Donald Trump as the explanation of something glorious. And that, in a nutshell, explains 90 percent of the evil committed on behalf of any political cause. People generally do not commit atrocities, a la Dr. Evil, because they sadistically enjoy harming others. They do so because they trick themselves into believing that the small horror they unleash serves a broader, better cause. Communists murdered to establish heaven on earth. Nazis murdered to create a more perfect human race. Ends so glorious generally yield to means that horrific. Though we never approach the glorious ends promised, humanity periodically endures the horrific means practiced. Do-gooders endanger us all. In a letter that begins “Dear World,” Ryan Wesley Routh wrote: This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I am so sorry I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you know to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job. Everyone across the globe from the youngest to the oldest know[s] that Trump is unfit to be anything, much less a US president. U.S. presidents must at bare minimum embody the moral fabric that is America and be kind, caring and selfless and always stand for humanity. Trump fails to understand any of … The indictment includes a picture of that page, which ends there. One gets the gist of his grievances in this abridged version of Routh’s manifesto. He wants to murder. More so does he want you to believe that he wanted to murder for a righteous cause. He’s not like all those scary, mean murderers. He’s a benevolent, humanitarian murderer. Such indicate the hallucinations unleashed by the addictive, mind-altering drug politics. Is trying to blow off the head of a father, husband, and hero to millions “kind,” “caring,” “selfless,” or standing “for humanity”? To invoke such beatitudinal virtues in preparation for murdering another human being indicates that some people just do not get their own irony. Ideologues rarely do. The letter, according to court papers filed Monday arguing for continued detainment of Routh, further reasons that Trump “ended relations with Iran like a child and now the Middle East has unraveled.” Again, one encounters rationalization above reason. Why did the Middle East not unravel during Trump’s presidency but instead did so toward the latter part of his successor’s? It is not as though he blames the former president for the Hindenburg disaster of the sinking of the Titanic. Nonetheless, it comes across as a grasping for straws as so much of what extremists profess does. The terrorist attacks of Oct. 7 and what followed — pager bombs and all — occurred not just on Joe Biden’s watch but long after Donald Trump left the White House. Nothing like it happened when Trump presided over the government. Routh does not strike as crazy or stupid based on this one page of his writing. He does seem, like millions of Americans, deluded by politics, which currently feeds a Manichean view among those already predisposed to it. Routh voted in North Carolina’s Democratic primary in March, affixed a Biden–Harris sticker on his truck, and donated numerous small donations through ActBlue designated for various Democrats, to include Beto O’Rourke, Tom Steyer, and Elizabeth Warren. He became so exercised over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that he traveled there and tried to organize foreigners to fight on the beleaguered nation’s behalf. He self-published a book in which he pointed to Trump’s jettisoning the nuclear deal with Iran as justification for his murder. The man of weak judgment held strong convictions. Given his business, which he described as “not about making money but rather providing economical simple shelters for our housing crisis for those that need it,” he clearly regarded himself as a do-gooder. Murdering the Republican nominee, like building a tiny house for a homeless person, relied on this philanthropic impulse as catalyst. We know Ryan Wesley Routh for allegedly lurking in the bushes for 12 hours with an SKS rifle, a GoPro, and makeshift ballistic shields in an effort to murder a man beloved by millions of people. That falls under misanthropy, not philanthropy. Many, like Mr. Routh, mistake the one for the other. The post Ryan Wesley Routh, Do-Gooder appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.