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Dems have the power to stop all the violent rhetoric — like Hasan Piker’s — and if not their silence is tacit approval

In the week before the latest attempted assassination of President Trump, The New York Times conducted the softest of softball interviews with leftist pundit Hasan Piker.

A typical line from Piker on his Twitch livestream: “Let the streets soak in [landlords’] red Capitalist blood.”

Talking to the Times, Piker refused to condemn Luigi Mangione for murdering a complete stranger, Brian Thompson — because, in Piker’s view, Thompson had committed “social murder” by being the CEO of a health-insurance company.

Piker isn’t a “fringe figure” on the left. He has interviewed major Democrats and plans to sit down with California Gov. Gavin Newsom soon. New York Times journalists nod along with his ideas.

If that’s fringe, what’s mainstream?

The alleged White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter also didn’t sound fringe in his manifesto.

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