Democrats lit the assassination culture fuse now their silence equals violence
How much longer will Democrats accept their supporters’ escalating calls for violence?The weekend “Hands Off” protests were wholly expected.President Trump riles up the left like few can.During his first term, the pink-hat protesters hit the streets days after his inauguration.
That this administration made it to April without them was something of a miracle.But Saturday’s demonstrations featured an undercurrent of violent rhetoric.In New York, a man dressed up as Luigi of “Super Mario Bros.” to honor Luigi Mangione, the murderer of health-care executive Brian Thompson.He carried a sign calling for Trump to be “deposed” — that is, violently overthrown.In Holland, Mich., Redmond, Ore., and elsewhere, grinning marchers wore shirts and carried placards emblazoned with the number “8647,” pairing the old slang term for murder with a 47 for Trump.
One 8647 protester stood right alongside Minnesota Attorney Gen.Keith Ellison in Minneapolis.“Hands off or heads off,” read the message on a life-sized guillotine paraded about in Denver.Protesters vandalized ICE and DHS vehicles in Washington, DC, defacing several and puncturing their tires — after weeks of viral videos of people keying, graffitiing or burning Teslas permeated social media.It’s not just property either: Over the weekend, a man was arrested in Portland after he used a laser to attempt to blind a Tesla employee.A leftist protester who blocked traffic at a “Hands Off” rally in Lafayette, Ind., head-butted a driver who confronted him, bloodying the driver’s nose, local police said.On Thursday, conservative students hosting a speaker at the University of California-Davis were targeted by masked assailants who tore up literature and wrecked tents and tables.That same day in Harlem, an angry leftist punched a pro-life activist in the face while she was conducting a live interview.
She was left bloodied and needed stitches.A new report from the Network Contagion Research Institute...