Word: politicalally
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Overheated rhetoric also knows no political bounds. In an MSNBC discussion of civility and threats in politics, progressive host Ed Schultz didn’t like it when I mentioned his February statement about former Vice President Dick Cheney’s heart, “We ought...
From representing Oklahoma City in Congress, I know that Timothy McVeigh’s deadly federal-building bombing was not the act of a mainstream political activist. Those on the left tend to overlook another mass murderer, the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, who sent 16 deadly package bombs to...
Many more examples exist. Violence against political figures is not new and the motives are diverse. I’ll always remember seeing President John F. Kennedy in person a few hours before he was shot by a communist sympathizer in 1963. One survey...
The point is simple: Extremism and violence historically exist on both ends of the political spectrum. Nobody should seek to advance their politics—as we are witnessing now—by pretending that menacing fanatics are all at one end of the political spectrum...
The American way to change this is through quiet revolutions known as elections. The controversy should be resolved in the political process. Overheated rhetoric is protected as free speech. But it’s over the line and wrong to suggest that either major...