The Federalist Violence has long been woven into the fabric of the American left, and until we honestly reckon with that, a bleak political future awaits.
Yesterday, I was writing a piece on the tragic killing of Iryna Zarutska down in Charlotte that has captured national attention. Before I could finish, news came down the beloved conservative activist Charlie Kirk had been shot at a university in Utah. I’ve been covering politics for a long time, and I can’t say I’ve ever had a story about politically charged violence pre-empted by even more political violence. Nor do I ever want this to happen again.
But I was doing my best to Kubler-Ross my way through this — I’ve met Kirk and generally thought highly of him — but I didn’t really snap until I saw Obama put out a statement:
We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
“We don’t yet know what motivated…” Yeah, I’m sorry, but we certainly know what the results of left-wing rhetoric are. And Barack Obama is living proof of that.
Plug into the matrix with me for a moment. As I was writing the aforementioned aborted story about the problems of law and order in America, I was reminded that, as part of a national political project to elect progressive district attorneys led by billionaire and Democrat megadonor George Soros, in 2020 San Francisco elected Chesa Boudin as its district attorney. Boudin was such a soft-on-crime disaster as D.A. — indeed, his entire campaign for the office was dedicated to issues such as bail “reform” and reducing incarceration — he was recalled by voters before he could finish his term.
But it’s remarkable he was ever elected in the first place, when you consider Boudin’s history. Boudin is the son of Weather Underground members Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert. They both ended up in jail after participating in a 1981 Brinks truck robbery with the Black Liberation Army that resulted in the deaths of two cops and a security guard (Chesa was just 14 months old at the time of the robbery). Aside from the Brinks robbery, the Weather Underground was best known as one of many left-wing groups that committed a series of terrorist attacks throughout the 70s. “During an eighteen-month period in 1971 and 1972, the FBI reported more than 2,500 bombings on U.S. soil, nearly 5 a day,” observes Bryan Burrough, author of the indispensable book on post-sixties left-wing violence, Days of Rage. Blessedly, almost all of those bombings did not result in death, but far too many did.
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