Progressives and left-wingers should denounce political violence because it will hurt their cause, says a magazine named after one of the most bloody-minded, pro-guillotine factions of the French Revolution.

The two authors at Jacobin.com wrote the day after Charlie Kirk was murdered by a sniper:

The assassination of [Charlie] Kirk is a tragedy. Morally, it is unjustifiable. Politically, it is cause for serious alarm. A larger spiral into political violence would be a catastrophe for the Left.

But the Jacobin’s anti-violence authors are still telling their pro-revolutionary supporters that Kirk’s popular politics are indefensible:

Kirk ran a well-funded political propaganda machine that promoted a simple message. “Liberals,” “radicals,” and “socialists” — he rarely bothered to make f

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