One of the least fair impulses we all tend to share is attributing the actions of a mentally ill person of any race, ideology, sexual preference, or whatever characteristic you please to an entire group.
Insane people come in all shapes and sizes, and can hold any number of opinions that overlap with mainstream views without the mainstream views being the cause of their actions.
43% of Americans who think the Republican Party is "so dangerous" that violence is necessary "to get the country back on track," also believe "Donald Trump wants children to learn that slavery was a good thing."
— Skeptic Research Center Team (@SkepResCenter) April 27, 2026
The spread of misinformation about the Trump cabinet's "white… https://t.co/HvJEm45LAG pic.twitter.com/2ABCrJaYPm
43% of Americans who think the Republican Party is "so dangerous" that violence is necessary "to get the country back on track," also believe "Donald Trump wants children to learn that slavery was a good thing."
The spread of misinformation about the Trump cabinet's "white supremacy" is associated with violent attitudes towards Republicans.
These data come from the following survey: https://research.skeptic.com/2024-presidential-election-study/
But when patterns emerge, and the actions really do overlap with mainstream opinions, we should sit up and take notice. Mental illness is not a societal sickness, but there are societal sicknesses that explain people's behavior as well. For instance, the horrific actions of Hamas are not divorced from the ideology of the mainstream Palestinian in Gaza, and ISIS didn't come out of nowhere. Nazi violence was not divorced from Nazi ideology. Racist attacks by the KKK were not divorced from a pervasive racism that dominated for a time in the former confederacy and its sympathizers.
Here it is: https://t.co/PVetWyUWET pic.twitter.com/9TGI6Dcte4
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) April 28, 2026
As many people have pointed out, Cole Allen's manifesto explaining why Trump and his cabinet needed to die sounded remarkably similar to the day-to-day talking points of your average liberal, and your average liberal seems perfectly comfortable with expressing the most horrific views about political violence against Trump and MAGA.
...Jeffries is counting on riding this rage wave into the speakership. Even three presidential assassination attempts are not enough to bring a sobering moment of introspection.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 28, 2026
That's how you get so many videos like this:
I’d love to hear how United Health Care plans to respond to the company’s social media manager mourning the fact that President Trump survived Saturday’s assassination attempt @UHC, whats your reaction?pic.twitter.com/8a3opdXRbH https://t.co/4YdPnYXDtz
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) April 28, 2026
Alison King was the social media manager for UnitedHealthcare.
Yes, THAT UnitedHealthcare, whose CEO was murdered in 2024, and whose murder has been regularly justified by liberals who are well accepted by mainstream Democrats. We have heard numerous justifications for killing Brian Thompson, and Democrats and NeverTrumpers flock to appear with Hasan Piker, who has justified his murder, including on a New York Times podcast just the other day.
Reminder that Hasan Piker publicly advocated for President Trump’s assassination
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) April 26, 2026
Perhaps one of his lunatic followers decided to give it a shot pic.twitter.com/CL6d18H2ZX
In fact, he and his defenders regularly appear in the Times, just as Democrats flock to appear with and even campaign with him.
Hasan Piker frequently praises Chairman Mao, Hezbollah and the Chinese Communist Party. So it’s only natural that Ezra Klein - the leading intellectual light of the Democratic Party’s moderate wing - embrace him in the New York Times.
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) April 13, 2026
He’s supposed to be the leading intellectual… pic.twitter.com/kAxT9Ytm2H
As Democrats call for "Maximum Warfare" everywhere and all the time, joke about Trump's death, spread conspiracy theories about him that are based on absolutely nothing, and keep mouthing inanities like "I don't approve of violence, but...," we have to come to terms with the fact that both the ideology that Allen used to justify his attempted murder and the opinion that Trump deserves to be murdered is a mainstream Democratic Party position, and is often openly shared.
This is what I find unsettling about the left’s most recent assassin. He says things that sound a lot like what you hear on MSNBC, CNN, Atlantic, your lefty friends on Facebook, etc. https://t.co/VVV1wA1bjs
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 28, 2026
As I have written about several times, the belief that Trump needs to be killed is openly expressed on social media by teachers, doctors, nurses, and even deeply connected political folks. James Carville rhapsodizes about his fantasies of watching Trump be tortured, and still shows up on TV as a commentator. A man who is deeply connected in Wisconsin politics and runs a multimillion-dollar SuperPAC and owns a brewpub loved by Democrats promotes his free beer day for when Trump dies, and laments that the assassin failed.
This brewery is owned by a man named Kirk Bangstad, and he’s not just some random crazy guy. Kirk is friends with current Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Francesca Hong. He previously employed Rebecca Cooke, the Democrat currently running against Derrick Van Orden, and was… https://t.co/sNrNn08Vlp pic.twitter.com/nM73CfjZXP
— Michael Alfonso (@MikeAlfonsoWI) April 26, 2026
These people feel great about sharing their violent fantasies because they are mainstream among their friends and colleagues. After the Charlie Kirk assassination, left-wing X and TikTok exploded with the same teachers, nurses, doctors, and academic-types cheering on the assassination.
You can’t make peace with this. pic.twitter.com/pUB3hN9FSZ
— Dissident Media (@DissidentMedia) September 14, 2025
These are not the Antifa zealots, although they usually defend them and cheer them on. Go to a No Kings rally and there are signs everywhere about killing Trump and Republicans, and the Democrats are proud to photograph themselves leading the parade.
Cole Allen was a regular on BlueSky, the "nice" social media site, where assassination fantasies are nearly a way of life.
Jennifer Welch, one of the most popular Democratic podcasters out there, tells Democrats to get on board with killing Republicans, and then goes off to meet with Barack Obama.
NEW: Liberal podcaster Jennifer Welch suggests the Dem establishment needs to get on board with wanting conservatives dead or else far-leftists will come “after you in the same way that we come after MAGA.”
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 28, 2025
Welch: *Plays video of protester celebrating Kirk's murder."
Welch:… pic.twitter.com/qJFSZBX8Bb
NEW: Liberal podcaster Jennifer Welch suggests the Dem establishment needs to get on board with wanting conservatives dead or else far-leftists will come “after you in the same way that we come after MAGA.”
Welch: *Plays video of protester celebrating Kirk's murder."
Welch: "Listen up, Democratic establishment. You can either jump on board with this, or we're coming after you in the same way that we come after MAGA. Period."
Liberals even tell pollsters about the need for political violence, and no, it is not a "both sides" problem. The more liberal you are, the more likely you are to approve of violence. The more conservative you are, the less likely.
New poll from YouGov
— Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) September 16, 2025
Agree it's okay to be happy about death of political figure they oppose:
Very Liberal: 24%
Liberal: 10%
Moderate: 7%
Conservative: 4%
Very Conservative: 3%
Agree violence can be justified to achieve political goals:
VL: 25%
L: 17%
M: 9%
C: 6%
VC: 3% pic.twitter.com/GztzwPcaqv
Even at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, as the bullets fly, a reporter told one of her colleagues that she hoped the president was killed.
WATCH: Rep @AndyOgles told me he heard a reporter at the WHCD Saturday night say "I hope they kill the orange MF" (talking about President Trump) while she was hiding from the shooter. pic.twitter.com/GuRwowtNAf
— Lynden Blake (@LyndenBlake) April 27, 2026
You don't say that, expecting to be ostracized from the club. You say it because you know you won't be.
Mainstream Democrats spread the vitriol, and it's not even a stretch from their belief that Trump is a Nazi and employs a "Gestapo" to wanting him dead. The line is direct, and the walk is very short.
Leaving the White House Correspondents dinner and look at the signs these left wing cunts are holding up outside. pic.twitter.com/oJtUHuX4nt
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 26, 2026
Mainstream liberals cheered on the anti-ICE violence and instigated it by using the most incendiary language possible. They called riots that killed people "public health," and painted BLM on seemingly every sidewalk in America. They called the CHAZ/CHOP law-free zone that wound up killing several people the "Summer of Love."
The violence is coming from the left, not the right. pic.twitter.com/4mTjf2CRwu
— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) April 28, 2026
And what percentage of Democrats now support Hamas and the Iranian regime?
The No Kings rallies' motto was "The Revolution Starts in Minnesota," and featured all the mainstream Democrats, including the Vice Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, who allowed a chunk of Minneapolis to burn down.
The ideological roots of the modern left come from the French Revolution. That is not an exaggeration; the frame of "left" vs. "right" originated during the revolution, and to this day, the left embraces political violence.
Arguing anything else is propaganda.
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