Despite a second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in two months, Democrats refuse to relinquish their extremist rhetoric. This inciting rhetoric persists because a fixation on violence pervades the left. More than a political strategy, Democrats’ extremist rhetoric is the product of the leftist ideologies that now rule them.
President Joe Biden kicked off 2024 with a Pennsylvania speech saying “Trump’s assault on democracy isn’t just part of his past. It’s what he’s promising for the future.” In the ensuing months, Biden did not let up.
Even after the first assassination attempt on July 13 in Butler Country, Pennsylvania, Democrats’ rhetoric against Donald Trump did not abate. Just two days after the shooting, Biden again called Trump “a threat to democracy.”
Following a second assassination attempt on Trump in Florida, Democrats continue to press the “threat to democracy” line: Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said “I think we should be clear that he is a threat to democracy.” She is hardly alone.
Needless to say, had circumstances been reversed, Trump would be enduring unmitigated outrage from Democrats. Yet hypocrisy should not obscure the fact that the left who now dominate the Democrat Party have a storied past of political violence.
Marxist View of Violence
Marxism, the classic ideology of the left, sees all human history as a sequence of conflicts between classes. According to Karl Marx, the sequence does not end until the proletariat overthrow capitalism.
The classic leftist view not only makes violence endemic to society; it makes violence acceptable when wielded in pursuit of
