If 10 people had been arrested as part of a conspiracy to kill Internal Revenue Service agents or Environmental Protection Agency inspectors, and the crime scene had been littered with graffiti and flyers echoing Republican Party talking points, the New York Times would have made it front page news and would have immediately done detailed profiles on everyone involved.
But after 10 people were arrested for shooting a police officer in the neck as part of a larger effort to ambush Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Alvarado, Texas while carrying a flag reading, “Resist Fascism, Fight Oligarchy,” the New York Times ran one brief story, four days after the event. And it didn’t even make the print edition.
If the planned execution of federal law enforcement officers by ambush in Texas were an isolated incident, maybe there would be justification for the story to be largely ignored. But it is not. Last December, after Luigi Mangione murdered United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said the execution “should be a warning to everyone in the health care system” while Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called it a “wake-up call.” Meanwhile, polling found that while just 49% of Democrats said the murder was “completely unacceptable,” more than 22% said it was at least “somewhat acceptable.”
This was followed by the cold-blooded murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., by a 31-year-old Chicago man who once asked a gathering of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, “Do we in Chicago and all across the country want a nation of cities dominated and occupied by massive corporations where only the rich and white can live, and the vast majority of us must live on edges of the city and society living in deeper and deeper poverty?”
The desire for violence on the left is not limited to anti-ICE activists in Texas, or anti-corporation and antisemitic activists in New York and Chicago. Axios reports that elected Democratic Party officials from across the country are hearing a demand for violence from their constituents. “Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough … [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public,” one Democrat said. Another Democrat told Axios that their constituents say “civility isn’t working” and to get ready for “violence … to fight to protect our democracy.”
Democrats have only themselves to blame for their bloodthirsty base. What did they expect to happen after nearly a decade of calling President Donald Trump and the Republican Party fascists? President Joe Biden himself called “MAGA Republicans” a “semi-fascist” philosophy that posed “a threat to our very democracy.”
If Republicans really are fascists, as Democrats claim, then wouldn’t violence be justified to stop them?
And it is not just the occasional overheated rhetoric from campaigning politicians that is getting Democrats worked up. There are institutional actors as well. The National Education Association just adopted a resolution pledging “to defend democracy against Trump’s embrace of fascism.” And the Service Employees International Union played an instigating role in the violence directed against federal agents and police officers during the recent riots in Los Angeles. The Trump Derangement Syndrome mind virus runs deep.
Any hope that the Democratic Party would take their electoral defeats in 2024 as a signal to moderate is being dashed. When Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) voted to keep the government open this spring, he was almost run out of the party. Democratic primary voters in New York City just chose a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, who has called to “globalize the intifada” — that is, stoke violence around the world — to lead their ticket in this fall’s mayoral election.
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The Democratic Party has lost its capacity to govern. The largest states dominated by the Democrats (California, New York, and Illinois) are bleeding residents to states governed by a Republican Party that is delivering competent government services at an efficient cost to taxpayers.
We hope that what happened in Texas, and what is apparently happening at Democratic Party townhalls across the country, will convince Democrats to tone down their rhetoric, and stop acting like Trump is an existential threat to the republic. He isn’t. If they don’t, more people are going to get shot.
