The scourge of left-wing violence isn’t new. It’s only going to get worse

Washington Examiner ^ | 28 Apr 2026 | David Harsanyi

[Rummyfan]

A few years back, left-wing media began popularizing the phrase “stochastic terrorism,” so they could blame mainstream conservative rhetoric for random violent acts. When a white supremacist goes on a shooting spree, legacy media demand that every Republican official in the country take ownership and denounce the act as if their rhetoric led to the violence.

Yet, when a left-winger such as Cole Allen allegedly tries to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, leaving a manifesto that’s virtually indistinguishable from the rhetoric used by the average liberal podcaster or politician, the same people act as if the two things are completely unrelated. There’s not a hint of self-reflection.

Politics, of course, has always been hyperbolic. Both Democrats and Republicans say terrible things about opposition presidents. But there’s probably never been anything approaching the unhinged hysteria aimed at Trump.

For years, it was broadly accepted by the Left that Trump was an asset of a foreign adversary. And when the president wasn’t operating “concentration camps” or stealing votes from minority groups, he was instituting fascism. And this wasn’t the usual vague pejorative synonym for “conservativism.”

“Yes, it’s okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don’t let me stop you,” one Washington Post op-ed argued. Though to be fair, another Washington Post op-ed disagreed: “Don’t compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. It belittles Hitler.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bolsheviks; democrats; domesticenemies; tds; terrorism; violence

[ansel12]

Older freepers remember the violent left, and it isn’t just the burning of cities of recent years.

From Time magazine.
“by 1971 protest bombings had spread across the country. In a single eighteen-month period during 1971 and 1972 the FBI counted an amazing 2,500 bombings on American soil, almost five a day.”
https://time.com/4501670/bombings-of-america-burrough/

[Gay State Conservative]

Every time a Rat Party hack in the Senate or the House refers to DJT as a Nazi...pedophile...threat to democracy...etc at least 10 of the Party's true believers vow to do bodily harm to him. If it's someone at the NY Times or the Washington Post who does so 5 of their true believers make such a vow. I can't recall a single serious threat to a Rat Party President...or Rat Party Presidential nominee...since JFK.

Republican Presidents or nominees? Well,that's another matter.

[ansel12]

From Nation magazine.

“Weather Underground leader Bernardine Dohrn made her infamous speech about the need to be “crazy motherfuckers and [scare] the shit out of honky America,” before paying tribute to the Manson family: “Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!”
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/remembering-left-wing-terrorism-1970s/

[SunkenCiv]

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[Fledermaus]

If the Republicans had any balls, someone would cold cock those SOBs.

[spintreebob]

“If the Republicans had any balls, someone would cold cock those SOBs.”

So you’re saying Republicans don’t resort to violence because they don’t have balls? Maybe it is because they are too busy with their families and churches to waste their time on “those SOBs”.

[Fledermaus]

Knocking a bully on his ass isn’t violence. It’s justice.

[exnavy]

A good reminder to lay in another 1000 rounds or so of ammunition.

[Nateman]

Some Democrat violence after losing the First Democrat-Republican War.

[Signalman]

It’s always the left. Lee H. Oswald was a self-admitted Marxist.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yep.

I sometimes wonder what kind of cotton candy world some of these people lived in.

I don't know. Maybe it was because I did not grow up middle class in the suburbs but I remember a very different world. One in which there was a lot of violence from the left.

[sauropod]

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[sauropod]

bkmik

[cowboyusa]

Prep and BLOAT

[Salman]

The Democrats have seceded from the human race.
It's time for Trump to go full Pinochet.

[eyeamok]

it’s okay to compare Trump to Hitler

The leader of the National SOCIALIST German Workers Party was I wild eyed progressive hell bent on violence and complete dominance, your average middle of the road democrat today

[rxh4n1]

“If the Republicans had any balls, someone would cold cock those SOBs.”

How many have you cold cocked? Another keyboard tough guy.