We Need to Talk about Democrats

People who celebrate political violence cannot be trusted.

J.B. Shurk | September 25, 2026

Fifteen years ago, a dark movie called We Need to Talk about Kevin told the story of a mother struggling to understand why her sociopathic teenaged son had gone on a murder spree at home and at school.  In the same vein, we need to talk about Democrats.

We should have had a national conversation about Democrat violence back in 2017, when an Illinois Democrat and Bernie Sanders supporter attempted to assassinate an entire baseball team of Republican members of the U.S. House and Senate.  While the would-be assassin failed to murder anyone before being neutralized, he did manage to shoot four people, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was one of two critically injured.  The mass murder attempt could have easily been much worse.  Twenty-four Republican congressmen were on the field that day, and had the Democrat assassin been successful, he would have substantially shifted the balance of power in Congress.  It was an unprecedented attack on one of the three branches of the federal government.

Instead of acknowledging the seriousness of Democrat violence, Establishment Republicans and Democrats joined hands and pretended that the assassination attempt was the fault of “both parties.”  Former Republican Senator Jeff Flake lectured the country to “tone it down” because “discourse” had “gotten out of hand…on all sides” — which was his way of blaming newly-inaugurated President Trump for saying things that might provoke a Democrat to murder two dozen Republican congressmen.  

The shooter had a list of Republican congressmen in his pocket and another list of Republican congressmen in a storage locker.  Amazingly, he even asked two Republican members of Congress leaving early that day whether “Republicans or Democrats” were practicing on the baseball field.  The would-be assassin had recently written on social media, “Trump is a Traitor.  Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy.  It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.”  The aspiring mass murderer also belonged to Facebook groups named, “Terminate the Republican Party,” and “The Road To Hell Is Paved With Republicans.”

Nevertheless, the FBI refused to ascribe a motive to the shooter and initially designated the attack as “suicide by cop.”  Only after........

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