Josh Shapiro survives deadly arson attack—now the left must own the culture of political violence it created
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.
Did national Democrats disavow the murderous thugs?
On the contrary, they embraced and praised them: We live in a state of emergency caused by Donald Trump, anything goes!
And that embrace has continued to the present day.
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.
Just this past weekend, in fact, CNN aired a fawning interview of influencer and former New York Times/Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz, wherein she indirectly cheers Mangione as someone who “seems like this morally good man.”
The left typically uses the word “justice” to conceal the simple, bestial need for violence that animates a large section of its base.
Justice has nothing to do with it, as normal Americans understand.
The question is: Can Democrats?
