Renee Good should be alive today. It’s because of radical, far-left political ideology that she is not.

The mother of three was killed during a tragic interaction with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Wednesday after she was reportedly disrupting and impeding a federal law enforcement operation. In my opinion, it looks as if she was driving her vehicle into an ICE officer. However, I am not a lawyer, not trained in forensics, and have no experience in law enforcement, so my opinion here is objectively of little value. What I can comment on, however, is that Good’s death is a cautionary tale on the dangers of the left-wing cult of ideology.

Socialists and communists have been funding, organizing, and training agitators to disrupt federal law enforcement operations since President Donald Trump began his second term. Often their actions have been dangerous, illegal, and violent. It’s indicative of the societal left-wing brainwashing many supporters have subscribed to — arguably for decades — in recent years. From throwing Molotov cocktails and large stones off bridges at ICE agents in Los Angeles, to trying to assassinate ICE personnel at a detention center in Texas, to numerous other examples over the last year, radicalized left-wingers have regularly crossed the threshold of legal protest into dangerous, life-threatening violence. 

And they have done so because that is what their cult of ideology has instructed them to do. Unfortunately, it was an ideology that Good subscribed to. From a historical perspective, this thirst for violence originates from the core tenets of Marxist orthodoxy. Consider the words of Karl Marx, co-author of........

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