How Democrats and left-wing media whitewash political violence

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Left-wing political violence has been a major issue facing the country going back to the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots. Left-wing media and Democratic politicians now spend their days mainstreaming and whitewashing their extreme rhetoric while avoiding discussion of how that rhetoric is contributing to political violence.

This was on display after the latest attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, where a gunman tried to spring past security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. The alleged manifesto of the suspect, Cole Allen, suggested that Trump and other members of his administration were his targets.

AMERICA’S LEFT-WING POLITICAL VIOLENCE PROBLEM CANNOT BE MET WITH DENIAL

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