Let’s be really clear about something: Ryan Routh is responsible for his attempted assassination of Donald Trump with an AK-47. The same applies to James Hodgkinson, Floyd Lee Corkins, Thomas Matthew Crooks, and multiple other insane progressive individuals who have tried to kill people on the right.
However, it’s equally relevant that an overwhelming majority of recent shooters have been inspired by language from the left. On a regular basis, MSNBC compares Donald Trump to Hitler with dystopian depictions of a second Trump presidency being The Handmaid’s Tale come to life. Democrats regularly claim that Trump is a threat to democracy and must be stopped by any means possible.
But the right is not immune from hyperbolic statements grounded in no semblance of reality. People on the right gladly bought the bogus story about someone with an affidavit claiming that Kamala Harris was given the debate questions in advance. People on the right have bought and spread the thoroughly debunked story of Haitians eating house cats.
But the difference is that – to my knowledge – only people on the left are attempting to kill Donald Trump, Steve Scalise, everyone at the Family Research Council, and dozens of kids at a Christian elementary school in Nashville. Where is the violence against progressives? And don’t say Gabby Giffords because that guy was politically all over the map.
If the fringes of only one side are routinely radicalized by that side’s message to perpetrate acts of violence, when will there be any accountability?
