In August 2012, MSNBC's left-wing enthusiast Floyd Lee Calkins Armed with a handgun and a spare magazine, he drove to the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the socially conservative Family Research Council and planned the shooting.
Caulkins is Later citations Mr. Caulkins, a former lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has argued that the organization is an “anti-gay” organization, also brought 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches with him to stuff into the mouths of his dead victims. Mr. Caulkins, who was volunteering at a local LGBT community center, was stopped by an unarmed security guard.
June 2017, left-leaning MSNBC Enthusiasts name James Hodgkinson Armed with a rifle and a handgun, he drove to Alexandria, Virginia, and attempted to assassinate the Republican team as they practiced for the annual Congressional Baseball Game. He severely injured then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who thankfully survived after multiple blood transfusions and surgeries. Five others were also injured. Hodgkinson was a 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential candidate. Campaign Volunteer “Trump is a traitor. Trump has destroyed our democracy. It's time to destroy Trump and his allies,” he wrote in a Facebook post three weeks before the shooting.
June 2022, California youth Nicholas Roethke Rothke flew to the nation's capital. He obtained a handgun, zip ties, a tactical knife, a hammer, a screwdriver, a crowbar, duct tape, and other burglary tools. About 30 minutes after a taxi dropped him off in front of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, at 1:38 a.m. local time, Rothke had second thoughts and called 911. After his arrest, Rothke told police he was upset about a leak of a draft decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization abortion case. Rothke Written in a private chat“We're going to stop Roe v. Wade from being overturned.”
In March 2023, transgender Audrey “Aiden” Hale massacred three children and three adults at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Hale, a former student at the Christian school, used her precious time during the attack to turn her gun on and fire seven shots at a stained-glass representation of the dead. Adam, a biblical character At the church next door. As I asked in this column last year, why would a transgender former student of a Christian school return to that school, murder innocent Christian children, and shoot up a stained-glass window depicting no less an iconic Biblical figure than Adam? It doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to solve this mystery. Leaked excerpts from the killer's manifesto confirm Hale's sinister, anti-Christian motives.
Last Sunday, former President Donald Trump survived a second assassination attempt in the space of two months. The first was carried out by a mysterious Thomas Crookesdonate $15 To ActBluea well-known Democratic fundraising platform. The second assassin, not so mysterious Ryan Routhhas numerous public records. Convicted Felon He was a supporter of Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign and had an excessive and creepy obsession. Ukraine and — one of the defining characteristics of the modern left. Routh's social media accounts were filled with leftist platitudes about the unprecedented threat that Trump poses to American democracy and the constitutional order. (Related article: More than a quarter of Democrats think the US would be better off if President Trump was assassinated: poll)
The murderous political violence in America today is not entirely attributable to one cause or another. Certainly, such violence must be condemned by all responsible political and civic activists as we move ever closer to an irreparable national abyss. But despite the hyperbolic reports that MSNBC broadcasts daily, not all sides are equally responsible for the terrible situation America faces today.
While Trump may not always be the most careful rhetorician, he has never actively called on his supporters to physically attack political opponents. On January 6, he told a crowd of his supporters at the Ellipse,Peacefully and patriotically” demonstrated at the Capitol. But the same can't be said for Trump's opponents. Earlier this year, Rep. Dan Goldman of New York said on MSNBC that Trump is “unfit to serve,” “subverting democracy” and “must be removed.” A poll released Wednesday found that a staggering 28% of Democrats said America would be better off if Trump were assassinated, and an additional 24% admitted they weren't sure. (Related article: 'Stop it now': Ex-CNN analyst slams those downplaying Trump assassination attempt)
This is unacceptable.
The left has violent tendencies that date back at least to Karl Marx’s calls for a world revolution of the proletariat, and even earlier to the French Revolution. And in today’s post-truth world, opportunistic narratives often trump cold facts. But Trump is neither a “fascist” nor a “dictator.” On the contrary, his first term was marred, if anything, by excessive subservience and an unwillingness to fire rebellious bureaucrats.
Unless MSNBC commentators and their left-wing allies tone down their rhetoric, reasonable observers would conclude that they agree with the 28 percent of Democrats who want Trump dead.
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