J.B. Shurk (American Thinker) — People who celebrate political violence cannot be trusted.
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Fifteen years ago, a dark movie called We Need to Talk about Kevintold the story of a mother struggling to understand why her sociopathic teenaged son had gone on a murder spree at home and at school. In the same vein, we need to talk about Democrats.
We should have had a national conversation about Democrat violence back in 2017, when an Illinois Democrat and Bernie Sanders supporter attempted to assassinate an entire baseball team of Republican members of the U.S. House and Senate. While the would-be assassin failed to murder anyone before being neutralized, he did manage to shoot four people, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was one of two critically injured. The mass murder attempt could have easily been much worse. Twenty-four Republican congressmen were on the field that day, and had the Democrat assassin been successful, he would have substantially shifted the balance of power in Congress. It was an unprecedented attack on one of the three branches of the federal government.
Instead of acknowledging the seriousness of Democrat violence, Establishment Republicans and Democrats joined hands and pretendedthat the assassination attempt was the fault of “both parties.” Former Republican Senator Jeff Flake lectured the country to “tone it down” because “discourse” had “gotten out of hand…on all sides” — which was his way of blaming newly-inaugurated President Trump for saying things that might provoke a Democrat to murder two dozen Republican congressmen.
The shooter had a list of Republican congressmen in his pocket and another list of Republican congressmen in a storage locker. Amazingly, he even asked two Republican members of Congress leaving early that day whether “Republicans or Democrats” were practicing on the baseball field. The would-be assassin had recently written on social media, “Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.” The aspiring mass murderer also belonged to Facebook groups named, “Terminate the Republican Party,” and “The Road To Hell Is Paved With Republicans.”
Nevertheless, the FBI refused to ascribe a motive to the shooter and initially designated the attack as “suicide by cop.” Only after significant public outcry did the FBI reclassify the mass assassination attempt as an act of “domestic terrorism” and correctly acknowledge that the Democrat shooter was a “domestic violent extremist” with a “personalized violent ideology.”
The FBI’s ludicrous efforts to cover up the partisan nature of the attack reflected Establishment Washington’s similarly ludicrous framing of the assassination attempt as a natural and justified response to President Trump’s political rhetoric. Unofficially, D.C.’s “ruling class” seemed to be saying that President Trump and his MAGA supporters deserved to be attacked.
In contrast, after the president’s supporters protested the mail-in-ballot-tainted 2020 election at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Establishment Washington immediately labeled the incident an “attack” and defamed unarmed Americans as “domestic terrorists,” “seditionists,” and “traitors.” Politicians, FBI and DOJ officials, news media commentators, and even judges preposterously compared Republicans’ protests against election fraud to 9/11’s Islamic terror attacks, Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, and a U.S. Civil War that claimed as many as 850,000 lives.
They made these absurd comparisons — unmoored from reason or respect for history — after excusing as “social justice” the widespread violence and property destruction during the previous summer as Democrat-aligned domestic terrorists from Antifa and Black Lives Matter burned down cities, looted stores, left a trail of unsolved homicides, and caused more property damage than any other riot in American history. Establishment D.C.’s double-standard was as revolting as it was shocking.
This double-standard — in which Democrat violence is justified as “protest” or “free speech” while Republican protest is falsely described as “violence” and “terrorism” — surely contributed to every subsequent attack on conservative Americans, including the multiple assassination attempts on President Trump and the successful assassination of Charlie Kirk.
There is something incredibly disturbing about Democrats’ current state of mind.
Nearly two years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports conducted a statistically significant poll that showed just how much Democrats supported extreme measures against Americans who refused the experimental mRNA “vaccines.” In 2022, fifty-five percent of Democrat voters supported government efforts to fine “unvaccinated” Americans. Fifty-nine percent of Democrats were in favor of confining “unvaccinated” Americans in their homes. Forty-eight percent of Democrats supported fining and imprisoning Americans “who publicly question the efficacy” of the experimental mRNA “vaccines.” Forty-five percent of Democrats believed that the government should relocate “unvaccinated” Americans to quarantine camps. Forty-seven percent of Democrats thought the government should monitor and track “unvaccinated” Americans. And twenty-nine percent of Democrats wanted the government to remove children from parents who refused the “vaccine.”
A more recent poll reveals just how comfortable Democrats are with violence against those who disagree with them. The ideologically leftist Center for Strategic Politics polled only Democrat voters about how they would “feel” if President Trump were unable to complete his term under five different scenarios. Eighty-seven percent said they would feel “very” or “somewhat positive” if the president were impeached, convicted, and removed from office. Eighty-four percent would feel “very” or “somewhat positive” if Trump’s cabinet declared him unfit and removed him from office. Fifty-five percent would feel “very” or “somewhat positive” if Trump died in his sleep. Fifty-nine percent would feel “very” or “somewhat positive” — and an additional thirteen percent would have no feelings one way or the other — if a faction of the U.S. military overthrew the president and assumed control over the federal government. Lastly, thirty-two percent would feel “very” or “somewhat positive” — and an additional twenty-five percent would have no feelings about the matter — if President Trump were assassinated. Looking at those last two disturbing possibilities more closely, seventy-two percent of Democrats would be okay with a military coup, and fifty-seven percent of democrats would be okay with a presidential assassination.
These results reinforce other polls that demonstrate Democrats’ proclivity for political violence. In 2025, Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab partnered with the Network of Contagion Research Institute to investigate the emerging “assassination culture” gripping the political left. Their research showed that fifty-five percent of left-leaning Americans supported the assassination of President Trump. After the 2024 assassination attempt on the president in Butler, Pennsylvania, the Manhattan Institute found that a third of Democrats “wished” that Trump had been murdered.
After a “transgender”-loving leftist assassinated Charlie Kirk last year, Democrats widely celebrated his murder on social media. A female nurse in Atlanta wrote, “**** his kids. **** his ancestors, especially the bitch who birthed him.” A year later, Democrats across the country — including professors, teachers, and doctors — are still openly celebratinghis political assassination.
Similarly, alleged “comedian” Bill Burr thinks the worst thing about Luigi Mangione’s assassination of healthcare executive Brian Thompson is that the cold-blooded murder hasn’t convinced insurance companies to change the way they do business. Another alleged “comedian,” leftist John Oliver, recently excused Mangione’s cowardly act because, “Luigi is hot.”
Democrats’ publicly expressed enthusiasm for murder has become so disgusting to non-leftist (read: sane) Americans that The New York Times recently assigned two writers to defend their ideological allies’ macabre enjoyment of political violence. Describing Democrats’ triumphant celebrations of the murders of Kirk and Thompson as part of a “pitched battle over political dissent and free speech,” leftist scribblers at that rotting corpse once called “America’s newspaper of record” did their best to make violent, bloodthirsty Democrats look patriotic — or at least normal! As has become its custom, the Times failed.
Consider the Times apologia for political violence a reminder that too many Democrats embrace murder and other evils. The left thinks “assassination culture” is chic. Prepare to defend yourself accordingly.
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Fifteen years ago, a dark movie called We Need to Talk about Kevintold the story of a mother struggling to understand why her sociopathic teenaged son had gone on a murder spree at home and at school. In the same vein, we need to talk about Democrats.
We should have had a national conversation about Democrat violence back in 2017, when an Illinois Democrat and Bernie Sanders supporter attempted to assassinate an entire baseball team of Republican members of the U.S. House and Senate. While the would-be assassin failed to murder anyone before being neutralized, he did manage to shoot four people, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was one of two critically injured. The mass murder attempt could have easily been much worse. Twenty-four Republican congressmen were on the field that day, and had the Democrat assassin been successful, he would have substantially shifted the balance of power in Congress. It was an unprecedented attack on one of the three branches of the federal government.
Instead of acknowledging the seriousness of Democrat violence, Establishment Republicans and Democrats joined hands and pretendedthat the assassination attempt was the fault of “both parties.” Former Republican Senator Jeff Flake lectured the country to “tone it down” because “discourse” had “gotten out of hand…on all sides” — which was his way of blaming newly-inaugurated President Trump for saying things that might provoke a Democrat to murder two dozen Republican congressmen.
The shooter had a list of Republican congressmen in his pocket and another list of Republican congressmen in a storage locker. Amazingly, he even asked two Republican members of Congress leaving early that day whether “Republicans or Democrats” were practicing on the baseball field. The would-be assassin had recently written on social media, “Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.” The aspiring mass murderer also belonged to Facebook groups named, “Terminate the Republican Party,” and “The Road To Hell Is Paved With Republicans.”
Nevertheless, the FBI refused to ascribe a motive to the shooter and initially designated the attack as “suicide by cop.” Only after significant public outcry did the FBI reclassify the mass assassination attempt as an act of “domestic terrorism” and correctly acknowledge that the Democrat shooter was a “domestic violent extremist” with a “personalized violent ideology.”
The FBI’s ludicrous efforts to cover up the partisan nature of the attack reflected Establishment Washington’s similarly ludicrous framing of the assassination attempt as a natural and justified response to President Trump’s political rhetoric. Unofficially, D.C.’s “ruling class” seemed to be saying that President Trump and his MAGA supporters deserved to be attacked.
In contrast, after the president’s supporters protested the mail-in-ballot-tainted 2020 election at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Establishment Washington immediately labeled the incident an “attack” and defamed unarmed Americans as “domestic terrorists,” “seditionists,” and “traitors.” Politicians, FBI and DOJ officials, news media commentators, and even judges preposterously compared Republicans’ protests against election fraud to 9/11’s Islamic terror attacks, Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, and a U.S. Civil War that claimed as many as 850,000 lives.
They made these absurd comparisons — unmoored from reason or respect for history — after excusing as “social justice” the widespread violence and property destruction during the previous summer as Democrat-aligned domestic terrorists from Antifa and Black Lives Matter burned down cities, looted stores, left a trail of unsolved homicides, and caused more property damage than any other riot in American history. Establishment D.C.’s double-standard was as revolting as it was shocking.
This double-standard — in which Democrat violence is justified as “protest” or “free speech” while Republican protest is falsely described as “violence” and “terrorism” — surely contributed to every subsequent attack on conservative Americans, including the multiple assassination attempts on President Trump and the successful assassination of Charlie Kirk.
There is something incredibly disturbing about Democrats’ current state of mind.
Nearly two years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports conducted a statistically significant poll that showed just how much Democrats supported extreme measures against Americans who refused the experimental mRNA “vaccines.” In 2022, fifty-five percent of Democrat voters supported government efforts to fine “unvaccinated” Americans. Fifty-nine percent of Democrats were in favor of confining “unvaccinated” Americans in their homes. Forty-eight percent of Democrats supported fining and imprisoning Americans “who publicly question the efficacy” of the experimental mRNA “vaccines.” Forty-five percent of Democrats believed that the government should relocate “unvaccinated” Americans to quarantine camps. Forty-seven percent of Democrats thought the government should monitor and track “unvaccinated” Americans. And twenty-nine percent of Democrats wanted the government to remove children from parents who refused the “vaccine.”
A more recent poll reveals just how comfortable Democrats are with violence against those who disagree with them. The ideologically leftist Center for Strategic Politics polled only Democrat voters about how they would “feel” if President Trump were unable to complete his term under five different scenarios. Eighty-seven percent said they would feel “very” or “somewhat positive” if the president were impeached, convicted, and removed from office. Eighty-four percent would feel “very” or “somewhat positive” if Trump’s cabinet declared him unfit and removed him from office. Fifty-five percent would feel “very” or “somewhat positive” if Trump died in his sleep. Fifty-nine percent would feel “very” or “somewhat positive” — and an additional thirteen percent would have no feelings one way or the other — if a faction of the U.S. military overthrew the president and assumed control over the federal government. Lastly, thirty-two percent would feel “very” or “somewhat positive” — and an additional twenty-five percent would have no feelings about the matter — if President Trump were assassinated. Looking at those last two disturbing possibilities more closely, seventy-two percent of Democrats would be okay with a military coup, and fifty-seven percent of democrats would be okay with a presidential assassination.
These results reinforce other polls that demonstrate Democrats’ proclivity for political violence. In 2025, Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab partnered with the Network of Contagion Research Institute to investigate the emerging “assassination culture” gripping the political left. Their research showed that fifty-five percent of left-leaning Americans supported the assassination of President Trump. After the 2024 assassination attempt on the president in Butler, Pennsylvania, the Manhattan Institute found that a third of Democrats “wished” that Trump had been murdered.
After a “transgender”-loving leftist assassinated Charlie Kirk last year, Democrats widely celebrated his murder on social media. A female nurse in Atlanta wrote, “**** his kids. **** his ancestors, especially the bitch who birthed him.” A year later, Democrats across the country — including professors, teachers, and doctors — are still openly celebratinghis political assassination.
Similarly, alleged “comedian” Bill Burr thinks the worst thing about Luigi Mangione’s assassination of healthcare executive Brian Thompson is that the cold-blooded murder hasn’t convinced insurance companies to change the way they do business. Another alleged “comedian,” leftist John Oliver, recently excused Mangione’s cowardly act because, “Luigi is hot.”
Democrats’ publicly expressed enthusiasm for murder has become so disgusting to non-leftist (read: sane) Americans that The New York Times recently assigned two writers to defend their ideological allies’ macabre enjoyment of political violence. Describing Democrats’ triumphant celebrations of the murders of Kirk and Thompson as part of a “pitched battle over political dissent and free speech,” leftist scribblers at that rotting corpse once called “America’s newspaper of record” did their best to make violent, bloodthirsty Democrats look patriotic — or at least normal! As has become its custom, the Times failed.
Consider the Times apologia for political violence a reminder that too many Democrats embrace murder and other evils. The left thinks “assassination culture” is chic. Prepare to defend yourself accordingly.
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[ H/T The Burning Platform ]
