Where’s the violence? Look to the left
Conservatives aren't assassinating the opposition
COMMENTARY
By Robert Knight - Sunday, November 16, 2025
OPINION:
We keep being told that both sides of America’s political divide are equally culpable for violent rhetoric and violent acts. It’s a lie.
Virtually all of it comes from the political left. It wasn’t right-wingers who shot President Trump and murdered health care executive Brian Thompson in New York and conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah in cold blood.
It wasn’t Young Republicans who attacked a Turning Point USA event on the University of California, Berkeley, campus last week, beating up a TPUSA staffer. Four women were also arrested on charges of felony vandalism.
For decades, threats of campus violence have sealed off students from being exposed to conservative speakers and conservative viewpoints.
Meanwhile, the legacy media persist in enforcing the illusion that everybody is equally guilty. They still describe the deadly 2020 George Floyd riots as “mostly peaceful.” By the way, because that has elicited so much ridicule, The New York Times has slyly switched to using “broadly peaceful protests.”
Recently, there has been an upsurge in threats against lawmakers and online discussions of whether the country is at the breaking point. Podcaster Joe Rogan said Tuesday that liberals cheering Kirk’s assassination were stoking conflict.
“Charlie Kirk gets shot, and people are celebrating,” he said. “This might be like step seven on the way to a bona fide civil war.”
I don’t think so. Conditions are far different from those of 1860, when you had two distinctive regions with profoundly different views of human liberty. Today, the political and cultural divide cuts across communities all over the country, even though some states are getting redder while some are turning more blue.
What we need is swift justice against those who use or threaten violence to shut down opponents.
A couple of media events involving Sen. John Fetterman last week exposed how deep the vitriol runs. On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Democrat told CNN’s Dana Bash that radical elements of the left are far more malicious than the other side.
“The difference is the right will say really rough things and call me names — some I won’t repeat on TV — but on the left, it was like they want me to die,” Mr. Fetterman said.
Ms. Bash then quoted “Unfettered,” the senator’s new memoir: “You said, ‘I’ve drunk deeply of the venom of both the left and the right. As a connoisseur, I can confirm that the most poisonous, the bitterest, is from the far left.’ That is pretty remarkable to hear you say that as an elected Democrat. Why?”
Mr. Fetterman answered, “It’s just been my personal experience.” He noted that after asking his online team where the worst offenders were, “The answer was immediate. They said, ‘Oh, Bluesky. It’s Bluesky.’”
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