America's left-wing fringe, which is increasingly indistinguishable from the Democrat Party mainstream, absolutely hates our nation. You'd have to be blind not to see it.

Take the latest example: Jonathan Andrew Tijerina, the punk who just desecrated the 9/11 Memorial Reflecting Pool in downtown Manhattan.

Earlier this week, Tijerina was arrested and charged for an act of brazen, iconoclastic vandalism. In broad daylight, the 31-year-old spray-painted, over the engraved names of dozens of those killed on that terrible day 25 years ago, a plug for his silly little anti-gun website: "Juststopkillingkids.com."

Tijerina made no attempt to hide his dirty deed. On the contrary, he boasted about it on social media. He said he was "trying to spread awareness" about gun violence.

One imagines Hamas' paragliders said the same thing when they donned GoPro cameras before swooping into the Nova music festival.

But if the goal was to spread awareness of Tijerina's utter callousness, then he was successful.

The human atrocities of 9/11 are not from a distant past — something we've only encountered in a history textbook. Real families are still grappling with the fallout. Husbands are still grieving fallen wives, and young........

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