Only the GOP Celebrates Political Violence

MSN ^ | October 29, 2022 | David Frum -

[artichokegrower]

In March 2020, a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives posted a video message addressed to two Democratic political candidates that issued a threatening challenge if they passed laws he did not like. Standing in his Capitol Hill office, Ken Buck of Colorado’s Fourth District gestured toward a rifle mounted on the wall.

[artichokegrower]

On June 14, 2017, a mass shooting occurred during a practice session for the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity in Alexandria, Virginia, where six people were shot, including U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, U.S. Capitol police officer Crystal Griner, congressional aide Zack Barth, and lobbyist Matt Mika, by 66-year-old James Hodgkinson. A ten-minute shootout took place between Hodgkinson and officers from the Capitol and Alexandria Police before officers shot Hodgkinson, who died from his wounds later that day at the George Washington University Hospital. Scalise and Mika were taken to nearby hospitals where they underwent surgery.

Hodgkinson was a left-wing political activist from Belleville, Illinois, while Scalise was a Republican member of Congress. The Virginia Attorney General concluded Hodgkinson's attack was "an act of terrorism... fueled by rage against Republican legislators".

[silverleaf]

Yep, we have seen the BLM and Antifa republicans celebrating violence in multiple cities for over a year!

[DeplorablePaul]

Frum is a Canadian. Enough said.

[DesertRhino]

Drum…. The first sentence of his story refutes it. Moron. And I fires he never heard the celebrations of the attacks on Rand Paul, the BLM and antifa terror campaign loving nurtured by democrats, etc.

Simpleton hack

[Altura Ct.]

Heck the left not only celebrates it but encourages it.

[rlmorel]

Well, we all remember the PRESIDENT (Obatshit) saying “If They Bring A Knife To The Fight, We Bring A Gun”.

And the whole “Get in their face” thing. Not to mention their support for Antifa and BLM.

Yeah. It’s the evil Republicans.

[ronnie raygun]

guess we missed the 2020 antifa BLM celebration

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Only the Democrats commit it.

[Quentin Quarantino]

The author is deranged and hallucinating his own reality.

[DesertRhino]

First sentence refutes his own story.

[laconic]

No, Mr. Frum, YOU support “political violence”. As Bush’s speechwriter, you were a big advocate for the Second Iraq War. Frum should be walking Iraq looking for those WMDs.

[Vision]

The Left’s Core Strategy #1: “Pick the target and polarize it." *via Rules for Radicals

The Left’s Core Strategy #2: Scream accusations of racism (or racist attacks) at anything you don't like or which slows your agenda. *Sexism, "homophobia", etc. are also opportunities.

The Left’s Core Strategy #3: Intensely attack Republicans for actions you are undertaking.

The Left’s Core Strategy #4: Attack Republicans with shallow insults in an effort to negatively influence the public's view of their character. Do not attempt to explain the insults. Think drive-by shooter.

The Left’s Core Strategy #5: When everything fails, censor speech and/or deploy violence.

Repeat

[ProudDeplorable]

As soon as you said Frum, I knew it was a garbage article.

[Flavious_Maximus]

To David Frum:

Democrat Tim Ryan (running in Ohio Senate race) calls to kill MAGA Republicans...

https://freedompress.com/democrat-candidate-tim-ryans-weak-defense-for-call-to-kill-and-confront-maga-republicans/

[bray]

He must have missed Biden’s Adolf Hitler speech.

[imabadboy99]

Foreign interefernce in our elections!!!

[combat_boots]

Know who missed practice that day? Paul Ryan

[Yo-Yo]

Ten minutes of sound bites of Democrats advocating violence against Trump, Trump supporters, and conservatives in general, originally presented by President Trump's impeachment lawyer at Trump's first impeachment trial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj1Rwlztapg

[TexasFreeper2009]

I saw democrats love political violence ALL summer of 2020!!!

they ENCOURAGED it!

[StAnDeliver]

Don’t forget that Frum-py is cut from the same cloth as Paul Pelosi.