Columnist issues chilling warning after second assassination attempt on Trump: 'It was like nothing happened'

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Democrats are being warned about incendiary rhetoric against former President Trump, with one columnist arguing that Americans could become de-sensitized to political violence.

Columnist and author David Marcus explained the alarming difference in how Americans reacted to the first versus the second assassination attempt on the former president and the impact of polarized rhetoric during "Fox & Friends."

"This time, nobody changed the TV channel. Nobody talked about it. It was palpable," Marcus told Steve Doocy on Wednesday. "It was like nothing happened, and that was scary because when we get desensitized to these things, it can get really ugly, really fast."

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Marcus penned an op-ed this week, highlighting the fact that "people stopped in their tracks" after the first attempt on Trump's life, but when news of the second one broke, some bystanders responded with, "Are you surprised?"

"None of the networks cut away from the action for news coverage, my phone wasn’t blowing up with notifications, and my guess is that 90% of the people down on the floor of the casino, or in the sportsbook, had no idea anything had even happened," he wrote.

"We all know that if such an attempt had been made on Vice President Kamala Harris’ life, the games would not only have been cut