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Perhaps one of the greatest evidences that President Donald Trump isn’t the totalitarian dictator that many on the hysterical Left like to pretend he is, comes from the relative ease with which they’re willing to fly off the handle in criticizing the man. How many people who think they’re living under the next Hitler and are at risk of being thrown into a camp any minute now (something that has only happened in America once under a Democrat President, by the way) openly would blast that person on social media to gain a few extra internet points?

Most would be too afraid to speak up.

Even those in office aren’t afraid to defame the President, or call for his assassination. Maria Nicole Chappelle-Nadal, a Democrat serving Missouri’s State Senate, turned some heads last August after making a Facebook comment in which she made it public that she hopes the President gets assassinated.

The mythical Trump regime hasn’t responded with vengeance, but Missouri’s State Senate is finally punishing her after numerous unsuccessful calls for her to resign.

According to Fox2Now St. Louis:

The Missouri Senate formally condemned a St. Louis-area lawmaker Wednesday after posting and later deleting a Facebook comment in which she hoped for President Donald Trump’s assassination. The state senate voted 28-2 to censure State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal. The only two to vote against the censure were two other Democrat Senators.

State senators, in Jefferson City for a special legislative session, could not reach the required two-thirds vote to expel Chappelle-Nadal. Censure is the legislative act of publicly reprimanding an official’s conduct and expressing disappointment. The resolution also reminded Chappelle-Nadal the senate could return to the matter and expel her at a future date.

Less than a week after the comment was posted, state senate leaders in both parties removed her from positions on nine legislative committees.

Lt. Governor Mike Parson asked for the special session after his office received tens of thousands of emails and phone calls asking for Chappelle-Nadal to resign or be expelled. In a statement to the media, Parson expressed disappointment over the outcome:
“Obviously, we are frustrated with some members of the Missouri Senate’s decision to let Senator Maria Chappelle Nadal retain her seat. Make no mistake; this does not change my position that the Senator’s actions are inexcusable. I totally disagree with these Senators’ poor choice to let her remain in the Senate.”

Bad news, indeed, for her, but perhaps the lightest sentence in the world if we truly were living under the tyrant she believes we are.

[Note: This post was written by Matt Palumbo. He is a co-author of the new book A Paradoxical Alliance: Islam and the Left, and can be found on Twitter @MattPalumbo12]