Why Assassins Almost Always Go After Republicans
Democrats have created a permission structure for all types of political violence.
by David Catron
April 26, 2026, 10:16 PM
During a press conference held shortly after an armed gunman ran through a security barrier at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with the obvious intention of shooting President Trump and other members of his administration, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked this question: “Respectfully, why do you think this keeps happening to you?” Trump answered, “The people who do the most, the people who have the biggest impact, they’re the ones that they go after.” And by “they,” Trump meant Democrats. He has, for obvious reasons, studied presidential assassinations and knows that all but one of the victims were Republicans.
Republican President Abraham Lincoln was, of course, murdered by John Wilkes Booth in April of 1865. Corporate media “fact checkers” and online misinformation sites like Wikipedia have in recent years desperately attempted to revise history to conceal Booth’s political affiliation with the Democrats. FactCheck.org, for example, falsely identified him as a member of the Know-Nothing Party. That claim has been frequently repeated but any competent and politically neutral researcher will quickly discover that the Know-Nothings disappeared from the political landscape when Booth was 15 years old — ten years before he assassinated Lincoln.
The next president to be assassinated was Republican James Garfield, who was shot by Charles Guiteau in July of 1881. As with John Wilkes Booth, there have been clumsy attempts to conceal Guiteau’s affiliation with the Democrats. Wikipedia, for example, tells us on one line that he identified as a “Liberal Republican,” yet contradicts that very claim in the next sentence by pointing out that, in 1872, he voted for Horace Greeley. In that election Greeley ran on the Democrat presidential ticket against incumbent Republican Ulysses S. Grant — a much reviled figure among all Democrats for his success in defeating the Confederacy.
The third president to be assassinated was Republican William McKinley. Is anyone beginning to detect a pattern here? McKinley was shot in September of 1901 by Leon Czolgosz, whose biography has obviously been scrubbed clean of any reference to the Democratic Party. Depending on the source, He is variously described as a socialist, anti-capitalist, anarchist and even a disgruntled McKinley voter. A simple internet search on that incongruous claim produces the following result: “Based on available historical accounts, it is uncertain if Leon Czolgosz voted for William McKinley in 1896, although it is possible.”
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