VIEW OF VIOLENCE: “The language of physical aggression is bellowed loud and clear from the political, cultural, journalistic, and academic classes of the Left.  These aren’t vague, ambiguous slips of the tongue that can be explained away by context or poor phrasing.  There is no dog whistling here.  These are direct calls to violence.  And this violence is being encouraged not by fringe lunatics who show up at baseball games to shoot congressmembers, but whom Dougherty refers to as the “political class.” 

Many of these examples were uttered when John Boehner, Mitt Romney, and John McCain were the face of the Republican Party, long before Trump rode down that escalator to declare his candidacy. 

These threats are voiced by people who won’t throw the Molotov cocktails themselves but expect the friskier elements of their base to take the hints and do so.  And they indeed do so, with relish and increasing brazenness.  The growing violence on our campuses and in our streets is almost exclusively leftist and is a direct result of the green light being given to them by their leaders. 

There is hesitation on the part of some Republicans to downplay the Left’s calls to violence or, worse, accept their equivocations that such speech is only metaphorical...

This hesitation, grounded in a desire to retain the moral high ground of decorum, is commendable.  But it is also whistling past the graveyard... this is an ugly time in our history, and we need our eyes open wide to the fact that our friends across the aisle are increasingly comfortable with promoting violence rather than civil dialogue in their dealings with us. 

These agitations are directed not against foreign dictatorships, but against American citizens with whom the agitators simply disagree.  We cannot coexist with an ideology that is currently integrating the concept that conservatives publicly expressing their views, or even of conservatives being allowed to go about their lives in peace, are of themselves acts of violence.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/democrats_are_the_ones_that_have_been_inciting_violence_against_their_political_opponents.html