The Left’s Pattern of Political Violence Cannot Be Overlooked
By Mark Hemingway | Commentary, The Federalist
Violence has long been weaved into the fabric of the American left, and until we honestly reckon with that, a bleak political future awaits.
Yesterday, I was writing a piece on the tragic killing of Iryna Zarutska down in Charlotte that has captured national attention. Before I could finish, news came down the beloved conservative activist Charlie Kirk had been shot at a university in Utah. I’ve been covering politics for a long time, and I can’t say I’ve ever had a story about politically charged violence pre-empted by even more political violence. Nor do I ever want this to happen again.
But I was doing my best to Kubler-Ross my way through this — I’ve met Kirk and generally thought highly of him — but I didn’t really snap until I s...




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