Guy Benson@guypbenson
Partial list of politically-motivated assassinations and assassination attempts from the past decade:
- Leftist attempts mass assassination of GOP Congressional baseball team, nearly killing Scalise
- Leftist arrested in assassination plot outside the home of conservative SCOTUS Justice Kavanaugh
- Leftist assassinates conservative media personality and TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk
- Leftist arrested in assassination plot against WH budget director Vought
- Three separate assassination attempts against POTUS Donald Trump (all 3 by reported donors to Democrat/Left causes / one was a registered R prior to Dem-aligned donation & shooting Trump in the head)
- Man murders Dem lawmakers in MN (suspect has some right-wing beliefs, also is a former Dem appointee, also says the Dem governor told him to do it)
- Man sets PA Governor mansion ablaze with Dem Gov & family asleep inside (suspect is a ‘globalize the intifada’ terrorist/antisemite)
- Man attacks Paul Pelosi with a hammer (unclear if this counts as an assassination attempt or politically motivated / suspect has a bizarre worldview, with a mix of far left and far right views/conspiracies)
- Also worth noting various celebrations / justifications of violent acts (Kirk murder, healthcare CEO murder) among a non-insubstantial segment of the Left, as well pro-violence stances articulated by an increasingly prominent leftist influencer being mainstreamed by a large swath of the political Left
- After the Kirk assassination, YouGov asked Americans if political violence is ever justified. Huge bipartisan majorities said no. But: “A quarter of respondents who identified as very liberal said violence can sometimes be justified to achieve political goals, along with 17 percent of those who identified as liberal…6 percent of those who said they’re conservative and 3 percent of those who identified as very conservative.”
- Missing any? Feel free to add to the list below.