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The Left and Political Violence, Yet Again

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Then-president Joe Biden delivers his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 15, 2025.

Mandel Ngan/Pool via Reuters

It must be dispiriting for Democrats to watch a Republican president disgracefully grant clemency to scoundrels who attacked police and damaged property in the Capitol riot, but get no traction because — besides besotting himself with corrupt last-minute pardons of family members potentially implicated in his corrupt family influence-peddling business, and issuing preemptive pardons of the type he indignantly foreswore four years ago to public officials — the outgoing Democratic president made sure to pardon a radical leftist who murdered two FBI agents . . . over the vigorous objections of the FBI.

This merely continues our unending series on the left’s infatuation with political violence — see, e.g., here and here.

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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