Sunday’s arson attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is the latest in an epidemic of political violence that’s been plaguing the nation for half a decade — an epidemic driven by the left.
Happily, Shapiro and his family were unharmed, while alleged would-be assassin Cody Balmer is in custody.
Balmer is plainly deranged, but he declares himself a “socialist” in social media accounts expressing a range of far-left beliefs.
And the far left’s normalization of violence goes back at least to 2020, when (amid the pandemic and lockdowns) what started as protests in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd quickly morphed into violent riots nationwide.
On the contrary, they embraced and praised them:
Witness the terror attacks against pro-life groups and the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh around the court overturning Roe v. Wade, attacks echoing violent rhetoric from Sen. Chuck Schumer about Kavanaugh and fellow Justice Neil Gorsuch.
Witness the widespread effort to minimize and mock the near-assasination of Donald Trump on the campaign trail.
Witness the love lefty Dems from AOC to ex-Rep. Jamal Bowman to President Joe Biden displayed for the violent, Jew-hating neo-brownshirts spewing hate across college campuses in support of Hamas and its Oct. 7 butcheries.
Witness the anti-Tesla terrorism that’s ranged from Molotov bombings to street vandalism because Democrats don’t like Elon Musk.
And witness the deranged reaction to the cold-blooded murder of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, with tens of thousands of toothpick-armed Redditors sending killer Luigi Mangione legal-defense money and hyping him up in the comments.
The left typically uses the word “justice” to conceal the simple, bestial need for violence that animates a large section of its base.
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