The Left’s Political-Violence Problem

Progressives have a long history of applauding violence when it’s aimed at their ideological opponents.

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A police officer tells demonstrators not to stand in front of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in Chevy Chase, Md., May 7, 2022.

Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

You’ll be happy to know that the New York Times did get around to covering Wednesday’s attempted murder of a United States Supreme Court justice. All you need to do is pick up the paper.

Well, no, no, it’s not front-page material — except for a teeny, tiny blurb under the vacuous heading “Arrest Near Home of Justice,” right under such feature page-one stories as “Vanishing Word in the Abortion Debate: Women” and “Back to the Office” Does ‘Never’ Work for You?”

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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