Violent attacks
on Republican
political figures
in 2018
earned little coverage
in the mainstream media,
showing their huge
pro-Dumbocrat bias.
The media called this “activism”.
Then they denounced Republicans
for warning of “angry mobs”.
The same media claims that
threatening and assaulting people
whose politics you disagree with,
is wrong ... but only when
Dumbocrats are being assaulted.
Dumbocrats
and their media allies
have sanctioned violence
against Republicans.
The leftists In academia,
talk of overturning Western
civilization.
Harassment,
Threats,
Assaults, and
Shootings
... are almost entirely
unleashed by leftists
against Republicans.
On September 9, 2018,
Rudy Peters,
the Republican
running for Congress
in the 15th District
in California,
was attacked
by a knife-wielding man
shouting, "Fuck Trump".
The attacker, Farzad Fazeli,
an Iranian Clinton supporter,
had previously posted,
“Don Trump
won’t clean his own house,
so he’s too dirty to know
right from wrong.
Impeach / incarcerate him
before more children die.
P.S. complacency is worse
than being the shooter.”
The next month,
Shane Mekeland,
a Republican
running for the
Minnesota
House of Representatives,
suffered a concussion
after being punched
in the face
at a restaurant.
“You fucking people
don't give a shit
about the middle class,”
his assailant
had shouted at him.
Mekeland is back
on the campaign trail,
while still recovering
from the assault.
“The media and the likes of
Maxine Waters, Hillary,
and Eric Holder as of late,
is driving this behavior,"
he warned.
"If you see anybody
from that cabinet
in a restaurant,
at a department store,
at a gasoline station,
you get out
and you create a crowd.
And you push back on them,
and you tell them
they’re not welcome
anymore, anywhere,"
Dumbocrat Rep. Maxine Waters
had urged an angry leftist mob.
Eric Holder, Obama’s attorney general
and a possible 2020 candidate, had urged,
“When they go low, we kick them."
He had tweeted at Democrats,
urging them to, “Use the rage.”
Hillary Clinton had told CNN,
"You cannot be civil
with a political party
that wants to destroy
what you stand for,
what you care about."
Dumbocrat Senator Hirono
had refused to condemn
the harassment
of Republicans,
telling CNN:
"This is the kind of activism
that occurs and people
make their own decisions.
If they violate the law,
then they have to
account for that.”
That same month,
also in Minnesota,
State Rep.
Sarah Anderson,
a Republican,
was punched
by a man
when she tried
to stop him
from vandalizing
her campaign signs.
Also in October,
Kristin Davison,
the campaign chief
for Adam Laxalt,
the Republican candidate
for governor in Nevada,
was left with pain and bruises
after a confrontation
with a Democrat operative.
Her alleged assailant
faces a charge
of misdemeanor battery.
October editorials,
columns and op-eds
in the New York Times
included headlines such as:
"Get Angry, and Get Involved,"
"Tears, Fury or Action:
How Do You Express Anger?",
“Fury Is a Political Weapon
And Women Need to Wield It.”
In the two months
from May to June,
thirty
Republican members
of Congress
were attacked
or threatened.
Attackers included
Christopher Michael McGowan
who warned
Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s staff,
"I am not making a joke.
I will kill him."
And included
Steve Martan,
a "pacifist",
who threatened
to shoot
Rep. Martha McSally.
E. Stanley Hoff
was arrested
for leaving a message
for Rep. Steve Stivers
warning the
Ohio Republican,
"We're coming to get
every god damn
one of you
and your families.
Maybe the next one
taken down
will be your daughter."
Messages aimed at
Rep. Tom Garrett
threatened,
"This is how
we're going to kill
your wife",
and
"This is what
I'm going to do
to your daughters."
Rep. David Kustoff
was nearly run off the road.
In the middle of June,
James Hodgkinson,
a passionate
Bernie Sanders supporter,
opened fire at a Republican
charity baseball practice,
seriously wounding
Rep. Steve Scalise,
and Zack Barth,
an aide to
Rep. Roger Williams.
Hodgkinson had a hit list
of ONLY
conservative Republicans,
Rep. Mo Brooks, South Carolina
Rep. Jeff Duncan and
Arizona Rep. Trent Franks,
Rep. Jim Jordan,
Tennessee Rep. Scott DesJarlais
and Virginia Rep. Morgan Griffith.
Yet the FBI denied that it was
a political assassination.
In August,
Carlos Bayon
was arrested
for threatening
House Majority Whip
Steve Scalise
and House Republican
Conference Chairwoman
Cathy McMorris Rodgers.
“We are not going to
feed them sandwiches,
we are going to
feed them lead,”
he declared.
Law enforcement found bomb
and assassination manuals
in Bayon’s house.
Around the same time,
DeReal Finklin,
a registered Democrat,
was charged
for sending death threats
to Rep. Christopher H. Smith.
DeReal had also posted,
"Anybody outside of my blood
in Monmouth or Ocean County
on my Facebook account,
you are dead."
In June 2018,
Laurence Wayne Key,
a Democratic Party
of Marin County volunteer,
was arrested
for threatening to kill
Rep. Brian Mast’s
three children.
"I’m going to find
the Congressman’s kids
and kill them.
If you’re going to separate
kids at the border,
I’m going to kill his kids,”
the Planned Parenthood
supporter threatened.
In Florida, in June 2018,
Steve St. Felix
was charged with
threatening to kill
Rep. Jose Felix Diaz.
“Ill kill your ass and
you better not show up
to the next rec meeting,”
St. Felix, who can be seen
grinning widely
in his booking photo,
warned.
In July 2018, in Tennessee,
Clifton Ward was indicted
for threatening to kill
Rep. Diane Black.
In New York, Martin Astrof
allegedly tried to run over
one of Rep. Lee Zeldin’s
campaign workers,
who had been recognized
for feeding rescue workers
at Ground Zero after 9/11.
Ian Nicholas Nix
was arrested
for threatening
to kill
South Carolina
state Rep.
Steven Long.
Nix called Long
“right-wing scum”
and warned him,
"You’re a fucking dead man.”
In July 2018,
a man
who threatened
to chop up
Senator Rand Paul
and his family
with an axe
was arrested.
