Leftists are violent. Is that any surprise?

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There has long been a simmering threat of political violence lurking around the edges of American politics, occasionally rearing its ugly head.

President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre just days after the conclusion of the American Civil War. Less than 40 years later, President William McKinley was shot by an anarchist. In 1935, U.S. Senator and former Governor of Louisiana Huey Long was murdered in the State Capitol Building that he himself built. Infamously, both President John F. Kennedy and his brother, then-senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, were assassinated in the 1960s.

More recently, however, the skulking shadow of political violence seems to have darkened and broadened. The summer of 2020 saw violent rioters burn down cities