Only one day after Trump was inaugurated, at the Women’s March in Washington DC, a self-proclaimed communist named Angela Davis appealed for military force against Trump during her speech. As you could imagine, it was met with cheers from the crowd. Here’s what she said: “Over the next months and years we will be called upon to intensify our demands for social justice to become more militant.” By the way, this same woman was once placed on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted List after being charged for murdering a judge by shooting him with a shotgun.

“Those who still defend the supremacy of white male hetero-patriarchy had better watch out.” she concluded. Also in case you forgot, at the very same event, pop legend Madonna spoke about her fantasies of “blowing up the White House.”

Not long after this, Joy Bahar of The View claimed that Trump was a recruiter for ISIS. “Do you think that because he is the recruiter-in-chief that he could be considered treasonous? I mean, that is against the Constitution, that is against America. That’s a treasonous act in my opinion.” (BTW, the penalty for treason is death).

A few weeks later, television writer/producer David Simon tweeted, “If Donald Trump fires Robert Mueller and is allowed to do so, pick up a goddamn brick. That's all that’s left to you.”

Writing in The Nation, Natasha Lennard praised street violence during Trump protests as “kinetic beauty.”

Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters, told her viewers: “Don’t play footsie with proto-fascism. Fucking smash it.” 

A few weeks later, CNN personality Kathy Griffin posed deadpan, holding a severed and bloody head resembling Donald Trump.

Shortly after that, New York’s venerable “Shakespeare in the Park” was performing a modern-dress version of Julius Caesar, in which a Trump-qua-Caesar character was murdered every night in a particularly bloody and graphic staging.

And finally, just 3 months before the attempted murder of the entire GOP softball team, the former Obama Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, made a video in which she called for people “who see our rights being assailed, being trampled on and even being rolled back” to follow the example of freedom fighters of the past. “They’ve marched, they’ve bled and yes, some of them died. This is hard. Every good thing is. We have done this before. We can do this again.”

After this video was posted, several Senate Democrats publicly shared Lynch’s call for street action leading to bloody sacrifice on their Facebook pages.

Following the shooting, popular liberal op-ed writer Malcolm Harris humorously wondered if the shooter could plead self-defense, in the event he had a pre-existing condition.

Almost immediately after Steve Scalise was shot, Sonia Gupta, a Louisiana former prosecutor, counseled her followers not to be too sad about the wounding of Representative Scalise, because “he’s a racist piece of shit and hateful bigot.” 

Not one on this list was ever censored on social media. None of them had their twitter accounts banned. None had their FB disabled. None of the government officials on this list had any serious calls for impeachment. No one was silenced.

Just another case of "rules for thee, but not for me."