The Ideological Roots of Leftist Political Violence

[rangerrebew]

The Ideological Roots of Leftist Political Violence
Tyler O’Neil
•   April 27, 2026
 

What’s behind the alarming spike in leftist political violence?

In the past two years, President Donald Trump has faced three assassination attempts, with the most recent one arguably coming Saturday night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Members of his administration have also faced violent threats. Last year saw the assassination of Charlie Kirk, one of Trump’s most prominent supporters, and some on the left have celebrated the assassination of a health care CEO, Brian Thompson.

Just last week, leftist podcaster Hasan Piker suggested in a New York Times interview that Thompson deserved to die because he “was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder.” Piker argued that “the systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for-profit, paywalled system of health care” justified the assassination.

Also, last year, Virginia elected Jay Jones as attorney general, despite the fact that he previously sent messages fantasizing about shooting Republican former Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Todd Gilbert. Jones stated at the time that he wished Gilbert’s young children would die in their mother’s arms, and he justified this death wish by saying, “Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.” Jones later apologized for the texts after they were made public during his campaign for Virginia attorney general.

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[rangerrebew]

You can't give what you don't have, so those with a violent personality devoid of respect for themselves can't give it to others.

[Free Vulcan]

It's always been there. That's what Marxists do when they don't get their way. Stop the delusional denial and pearl clutching and accept that for the truth that it is.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Ideological Roots of Leftist Political Violence = the ends justifies the means

[Fishrrman]

"The Ideological Roots of Leftist Political Violence..."

... seem to go back at least to the French Revolution (in relatively recent times). But they continue to be honed and cherished most by the left.

RINO postulates:
"Ideological Roots of Leftist Political Violence = the ends justifies the means"

Well, I suppose so.
But the time is going to come (probably after I've gone on) when THE RIGHT (and white/Christian/Western Civilization in a greater sense) will have to use whatever means are required to achieve their ends (no "justification" proffered).

Because by then, the only "end" is going to be survival itself.

(All that high-minded talk gets tossed right outta the window, when you're the one who they're lookin' to throw out of it next...)

[The_Reader_David]

"The Ideological Roots of Leftist Political Violence..."

... seem to go back at least to the French Revolution (in relatively recent times). But they continue to be honed and cherished most by the left.

Yup.  They've been that way since they got their name from the seating arrangement in the French National Assembly.  Political violence, hatred of Christianity, the delusion that their opinions represent "reason", emnity on the basis of social class, they were all there on the Left a couple generations before Marx.  Even features of the current Left that Marx would have mocked, like the romanticization of primitive cultures were there.  In many ways Rousseau was a more baleful influence on the world than Marx.