Topic: Political Violence

In San Diego, Amy Reichert, a conservative pol dedicated to exposing corruption, has car damaged on highway
In San Diego, Amy Reichert, a conservative pol dedicated to exposing corruption, has car damaged on highway June 10, 2024 Monica Showalter It coincides with a spate of screaming phone calls, bizarre emails and weird packages. It's like Navalny.
Leftist thuggery: Political violence accelerates against Trump-supporters
Leftist thuggery: Political violence accelerates against Trump-supporters February 14, 2020 Monica Showalter A new incident in New Hampshire is just the latest in a string of increasingly frequent attacks on Trump-supporters.
Democrats Are the Ones Who Have Been Inciting Violence against Their Political Opponents
Democrats Are the Ones Who Have Been Inciting Violence against Their Political Opponents August 6, 2019 Christopher Skeet The language of physical aggression is bellowed loud and clear from the political, cultural, journalistic, and academic classes of the Left. These aren’t vague, ambiguous slips of the tongue; these are direct calls to violence.
Is America Headed for a Wave of Political Violence?
Is America Headed for a Wave of Political Violence? March 18, 2019 Taylor Lewis Saying there’s too much hatred in America’s air is like saying there’s too much salt in the ocean. The country was founded on partisan bickering, which occasionally turned violent.
If Dems refuse to denounce incitement to harassment and murder, make them <em>own</em> it
If Dems refuse to denounce incitement to harassment and murder, make them own it October 9, 2018 Thomas Lifson So far, nobody of standing in the Democratic Party is calling out the thugs operating as the Dems' enforcers.
Prominent Democrat encouraging the assassination of Trump
Prominent Democrat encouraging the assassination of Trump August 20, 2018 Thomas Lifson Forget about excusing this as "only a joke." Jokes are a well recognized means of expressing hostility while pretending not to.
Big Plans on the Hard Left for November 4
Big Plans on the Hard Left for November 4 August 16, 2017 J.R. Dunn If all this were aimed only at "White Supremacists," I'd say go to it – that would be a battle in which both sides should lose, and one well worth seeing.  But of course, it isn't.  It's aimed at anyone who disagrees with the hard left.
Sorry, Dr. Krauthammer: The problem is on the left
Sorry, Dr. Krauthammer: The problem is on the left June 16, 2017 Thomas Lifson There are few political commentators who come up to the level of Dr. Charles Krauthammer, but yesterday he managed to say something very intelligent, reasonable, superficially correct, and wrong-headed.
Democrats and media are engineering an era of political violence
Democrats and media are engineering an era of political violence May 17, 2017 Thomas Lifson Three incidents of violence and threats of violence reported in just one day, yesterday.  Those who don't stand up and denounce this accelerating wave of violence are setting themselves up to profit from it.
Progressives openly signaling the arrival of political violence as a tactic to obtain power
Progressives openly signaling the arrival of political violence as a tactic to obtain power May 15, 2017 Thomas Lifson The message is being sent out loud and clear: the American left is moving toward violence as a tactic in its quest to grab the political power to which it believes it is entitled.
Gay Republican Attacked, Sent to Hospital
Gay Republican Attacked, Sent to Hospital October 25, 2012 Doug Mainwaring The left oftentimes seems incapable of tolerating any level of ideological opposition. Opposition isn't to be challenged through reasoned argument and free and fair elections. No -- it must be eviscerated.