When the George Floyd protests happened and some protestors decided to assault people or destroy property, did you consider that political violence? When the 2017 Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., resulted in Heather Heyer being fatally struck by a car, did you consider that political violence? When protesters in Los Angeles threw bricks and bottles at Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, did you consider that political violence? When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, did you consider that political violence? The answer to all of those is yes.

We have been living in an age of political violence for some time now, and politicians, pundits, social media companies, and influencers have been telling us that the violence has been one sided, and it's not the side you agree with.

With the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we are seeing it yet again. Yes, it is obviously an act of political violence and should be condemned. But as many of us middle Americans saw, Republicans including the president blamed the “radical left” for Kirk's death while Democrats struggled to keep people from celebrating or justifying the murder. These people are now being doxed and losing their jobs, by the way. While politicians, pundits and influencers called for us to “

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