Take a walk down memory lane with me. Back in November 2022, Donald Trump had dinner with Ye (the rapper formerly known as Kanye West) and Nick Fuentes. Both Ye and Fuentes are vocally anti-semitic and problematic (Fuentes was recently arrested for battery after pepper spraying a woman who came to his house).
The media, of course, engaged in some major pearl-clutching over it, and PBS decided to ask 57 Republicans if they condemned the dinner.
Here's what PBS wrote at the time:
The meeting drew widespread criticism from people across the political spectrum, but mostly absent were the voices of sitting lawmakers from his own party. A handful of Republicans, including outgoing lawmakers Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger condemned Trump over the weekend, but overwhelmingly the party was silent. On Monday evening, Mike Pence reportedly said that Trump should apologize for the meeting.
Other Republicans have started to respond to reporters as they’ve returned to Washington on Monday evening, calling the meeting a “bad idea” and saying antisemitism can’t be tolerated but stopped short of condemning Trump directly.
I will point out there the same media and Republicans were awfully quiet when Fuentes endorsed Kamala Harris earlier this year. There were no breathless columns from PBS asking 57 Democrats if they condemned Kamala Harris for the Fuentes endorsement.
Yet we've not seen pieces condemning the inflammatory rhetoric from the Left -- rhetoric that drove not one, but two, men to try and assassinate Donald Trump over the summer. The same rhetoric drove Bernie bro James T. Hodgkinson to shoot at the Republican Congressional softball practice, critically wounding Rep. Steve Scalise.
Left-wing fear-mongering on trans issues drove several trans people to acts of violence, including Audrey Hale, who killed kids and teachers at The Covenant School in Tennessee.
And not one reporter asked dozens of Democrats if they condemn these attacks, or if their rhetoric is to blame for the behavior of others.
Likewise, we will not see those kinds of pieces from the media as prominent Democrats continue to offer backhanded praise and support to Luigi Mangione, the suspect arrested in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez both played the 'but' game in the wake of the murder. AOC said that the denial of insurance claims is an act of violence; Elizabeth Warren said you can only 'push people so far'. In the least surprising segment ever, panelists on 'The View' also justified the cold-blooded murder of a husband and father because health insurance is expensive, or something (thanks, Obamacare!).
And now posters are popping up around NYC of other CEOs.
Let me get this straight…
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) December 11, 2024
Daniel Penny choking out a repeat violent criminal as he was posing a threat to innocents is bad…
But murdering a CEO of a company you don’t like, then posting wanted posters in New York for other CEOs is okay.
The left’s unofficial motto is… pic.twitter.com/8swEPHbBnj
This is a clear signal to the mentally unstable Leftists: these are your targets. And if some nutter were to hurt or kill them, Democratic politicians will defend and justify the murder.
In the same vein, Rep. Nancy Mace was allegedly assaulted by a man over her stance on women's bathrooms:
Nancy Mace appears in a hand brace after being assaulted by an LGBTQ activist in the Capitol.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 11, 2024
This epidemic of Leftist violence is very alarming. pic.twitter.com/kFW01PrbJx
That sound you hear? Crickets from the Democrats and the media.
I expect no better from the latter. The media are the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, after all.
But where is the GOP on this?
Where are Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and Mike Pence? The three of them can open their mouths to condemn Trump's dinner with Ye and Fuentes, but they can't lift a finger to condemn their fellow Democrats for openly advocating violence towards private citizens. Violence predicated on the legal jobs those private citizens hold, simply because the Left thinks those jobs are 'evil.'
Why aren't Elizabeth Warren and AOC facing censure in the Senate and House for their open and blatant advocating of political violence? The GOP had no problem ousting George Santos for his wrongdoing, but they can't be bothered to hold their colleagues from across the aisle accountable even as they applaud the death of a CEO as some righteous act.
The Left loves to tell us that speech is violence.
It's time we hold them to their own standard.
