{"id":2492759,"date":"2025-09-30T08:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-demonizing-gives-license-for-political-violence\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:11:42","slug":"democrats-demonizing-gives-license-for-political-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-demonizing-gives-license-for-political-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats&#8217; Demonizing Gives License For Political Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-demonizing-gives-license-for-political-violence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2492759&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >article discusses increasing political violence<\/a> and hostility in the United States, attributing it largely to inflammatory rhetoric from left-wing politicians.It argues that repeatedly labeling political opponents as &#8220;Nazis,&#8221; &#8220;fascists,&#8221; and &#8220;tyrants&#8221; legitimizes violent actions against conservatives, citing the assassination of conservative figure Charlie kirk as an example. California Governor Gavin Newsom and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker are singled out for escalating divisive language, including extreme comparisons such as equating the Trump administration to fascist regimes or the Holocaust. Other Democratic leaders,including Hakeem Jeffries and Kamala Harris,are criticized for similarly harsh and provocative statements.the article highlights real threats and death threats against conservative politicians as consequences of this poisoned political climate.Legal analyst Jonathan Turley warns that widespread political rage fosters a dangerous surroundings, giving license to extreme actions.A recent poll underscores widespread public concern about politically motivated violence, calling it a serious national crisis. the piece condemns what it describes as a pattern of leftist demonization that fuels violence and urges a reconsideration of political discourse to prevent further escalation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In their perverse pursuit of power, leftist politicians are daily signing the death warrant for the next political assassination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s now a matter of when, not if.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can&rsquo;t relentlessly call your political enemies &ldquo;Nazis&rdquo;, &ldquo;fascists,&rdquo; and &ldquo;tyrants&rdquo; without giving license to homicidal leftists to do what they do best: Attack their perceived existential threats. Just ask the family and friends of Christian evangelizer and conservative icon <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/23\/charlie-kirks-death-is-filling-churches-across-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Charlie Kirk.<\/a> Or President Donald Trump, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/16\/fbi-agent-investigating-second-assassination-attempt-allegedly-made-anti-trump-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">intimately familiar<\/a> with what the unhinged left is capable of.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>American politics is a tinder box right now, and leftists like California Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/29\/gavin-newsom-escalates-rhetoric-that-makes-political-violence-inevitable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gavin Newsom<\/a> and Illinois Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki\/watch\/pritzker-on-bowing-to-trump-intimidation-the-consequences-of-not-standing-up-are-worse-247824453962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JB Pritzker<\/a> keep striking matches. GOP Rapid Response on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/gop.com\/rapid-response\/democrats-double-down-on-extreme-rhetoric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released<\/a> a list of 10 of the more incendiary comments from Democrat pols in the days following Kirk&rsquo;s cold-blooded murder on Sept. 10. It&rsquo;s a veritable who&rsquo;s who of hate from liberal politicians stoking the fires of political violence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;FASCIST!&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Newsom, who has visions of presidential sugar plums dancing in his head, has cranked up the hateful political vilification, even as his fellow Democrats offer platitudes about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8p1oURalEmo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;turning down the heat.&rdquo;<\/a> Newsom&rsquo;s official state press X account on Friday called Trump adviser Stephen Miller an all caps &ldquo;FASCIST!&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;DING DONGS IN THE WHITE HOUSE: IF YOU DON&rsquo;T WANT US TO CALL YOU A FASCIST THEN STOP DOING FASCIST THINGS,&rdquo; Newsom&rsquo;s team declared in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovPressOffice\/status\/1972011690536599971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">separate post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently to Newsom and crew, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ag-merrick-garland-says-feds-will-review-election-audits-az-gop-fires-back\/\" title=\"AG Merrick Garland Says Feds Will Review Election Audits, AZ GOP Fires Back \u00a0\">enforcing federal law<\/a>, restoring America&rsquo;s borders, and in general doing what voters elected you to do in a constitutional republic is the stuff of dictators. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Pritzker, the duly elected Republican president of the United States and his administration are architects of the next Holocaust. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Look, I&rsquo;ve built a Holocaust museum with survivors, I&rsquo;ve also read a whole lot about authoritarian regimes, this is the playbook folks,&rdquo; the morbidly obese liberal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki\/watch\/pritzker-on-bowing-to-trump-intimidation-the-consequences-of-not-standing-up-are-worse-247824453962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> former Biden liar Jen Psaki a week after Kirk was murdered by a suspect saturated in leftist hate. I don&rsquo;t know what the hell Pritzker is reading, but Trump 2.0 is nothing like the Third Reich&rsquo;s systematic extermination of millions of human beings. It is a false and vile equivalency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pritzker urged his liberal listeners to do something about it.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re not paying attention now and doing something about it, well then you&rsquo;re going to have to sit down for the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away,&rdquo; he told Psaki.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What does that mean? What does that mean to the violence-inclined liberal in the throes of severe Trump Derangement Syndrome? Here&rsquo;s the Democrat Party&rsquo;s constant message: You will lose &ldquo;democracy&rdquo; if you don&rsquo;t stop Trump. That seems like a lot to lose. It isn&rsquo;t true, but it is urgent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This type of vile rhetoric led to Charlie Kirk&rsquo;s assassination,&rdquo; the Republican National Committee said in response to Pritzker&rsquo;s violence-stoking comments. &ldquo;When will enough be enough?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>JB Pritzker &mdash; one of the most despicable human beings &mdash; ONCE AGAIN invokes the holocaust to compare President Trump&rsquo;s agenda. This type of vile rhetoric led to Charlie Kirk&rsquo;s assassination. <\/p>\n<p>When will enough be enough? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/llrtnjMo7P\">pic.twitter.com\/llrtnjMo7P<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1968505103016468978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Certainly not until Democrats regain power and their vengeance for Trump and the MAGA movement that returned him to the White House is sated. And most likely not even then.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>At a Congressional Black Caucus Conference, Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries suggests Republicans are pushing &#8220;white supremacy&#8221;&mdash; invoking Jim Crow, the KKK, and lynching in his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely REPULSIVE! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yRZ5xhWW7V\">pic.twitter.com\/yRZ5xhWW7V<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1971236340206534690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>&lsquo;Communist Dictator?&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Dems have learned nothing from the past or the present, making the future an increasingly dangerous place for conservatives. You can&rsquo;t falsely suggest the Trump years are remotely akin to the KKK-laden Jim Crow era and not invoke the kind of volatile anger that ends in political violence. But New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the House&rsquo;s Democrat leader, did just that at last week&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbcfinc.org\/events\/annual-legislative-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Congressional Black Caucus Foundation&rsquo;s Legislative Caucus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now we know in this great country of ours, whenever progress has been made, it has always triggered a backlash, amongst those interested in elevating white supremacy, this ugly underbelly in American life,&rdquo; Jeffries <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1971236340206534690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;There was the progress of emancipation and reconstruction followed by the backlash of Jim Crow, the KKK, and a lynching epidemic.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And the list of Democrats lighting the political violence goes on and on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Failed former Vice President and widely rejected presidential candidate Kamala Harris, trying to sell her <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/videos\/davis-kamala-harris-got-rewarded-for-failing-upward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blame-everybody-but-me book<\/a> and Americans on the idea of another Kamala presidential run, recently called Trump a &ldquo;tyrant&rdquo; and a &ldquo;communist dictator&rdquo; on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p8OyMIen9d4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rachel Maddow&rsquo;s<\/a> cable TV leftist fest. It&rsquo;s an interesting turn of phrase from the replacement standard bearer of a political party that has lurched aggressively to the far left.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, as she is wont to do, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DavidJHarrisJr\/posts\/jasmine-crockett-we-gotta-come-together-because-its-not-each-other-thats-the-pro\/1341592797539258\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vilified Trump<\/a> as a &ldquo;fascist,&rdquo; &ldquo;wannabe dictator,&rdquo; &ldquo;hater-in-chief,&rdquo; and &ldquo;racist-in-chief.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Maxwell Frost, a Florida Democrat, declared in the wake of Kirk&rsquo;s murder that &ldquo;Fascism is not on the way; it is here.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Constant Demonization&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Virginia State Del. Geary Higgins appears to be the latest conservative victim of the demonization campaign. In a statement released Monday, the Lovettsville Republican said he received a death threat via text. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/man-charged-with-threatening-to-shoot-virginia-lawmaker-in-loudoun-county-republican-del-geary-higgins-patrick-murphy-republican-lt-gov-winsome-earle-sears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fauquiernow.com\/news\/loudoun-man-arrested-in-death-threat-against-local-del-higgins\/article_877db319-6e27-4984-aa63-77122912311e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">media reports<\/a>, police have identified the suspect as Patrick Murphy, of Purcellville, Virginia. Higgins&rsquo; office reported that the message menaced, &ldquo;I will shoot u @ yer next public rally. Then send you memes with the photos. I know where your f***in kids are too.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Higgins wrote on X that the threat he received is the &ldquo;direct result of the nasty lies and constant demonization from the radical left that we&rsquo;ve seen over the last few years.&rdquo; He noted Democrat candidate for governor Abigail Spanberger&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-war-nikki-haley-predicts-that-arab-countries-will-blame-us-for-their-own-inaction\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley foresees Arab nations blaming US for their own inaction in Israel war.\">recent controversial comments<\/a> that her supporters should &ldquo;let their rage fuel them,&rdquo; and that his opponent in Virginia&rsquo;s November election, bed-and-breakfast proprietor <a href=\"https:\/\/virginiaindependentnews.com\/elections\/meet-the-candidate-john-mcauliff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John McAuliff,<\/a> is running ads calling him a &ldquo;crook and a treasonist.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It should be shocking to no one that continuing to your call political opponents names like &lsquo;Nazis&rsquo; will ultimately lead to violence,&rdquo; Higgins wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Let me be clear: threats of violence have no place in our political discourse. I will not be intimidated, silenced, or deterred from doing the job I was elected to do&mdash;fighting for my constituents in Western Loudoun and Fauquier, and standing up for common sense.<\/p>\n<p>I am incredibly&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/304vGvjIBU\">pic.twitter.com\/304vGvjIBU<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Delegate Geary Higgins (@DelegateHiggins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DelegateHiggins\/status\/1972755430041665709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>&lsquo;Rage Gives People a License&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Legal analyst Jonathan Turley asserts all that rage comes at a cost in politics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/5524115-let-your-rage-fuel-you-politicians-and-pundits-embrace-demonization-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">column<\/a> published over the weekend in The Hill, the law professor notes Democrats have ratcheted up anti-ICE rhetoric, putting in greater peril agents who have experienced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2025\/09\/22\/despite-1000-increase-assaults-ice-officers-governor-newsom-signs-unconstitutional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1,000-plus percent increase<\/a> in attacks. That includes the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y21gv_wtKNI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sniper attack<\/a> at a Texas ICE facility that killed a detainee but was <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/dallas-ice-sniper-suspect\/story?id=125909069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aimed at ICE agents,<\/a> according to law enforcement officials.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Americans are increasingly alarmed. A recent Quinnipiac University poll found 71 percent of registered voters surveyed believe <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5371822-poll-political-violence-serious-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">politically motivated violence<\/a> in the U.S. today is a very serious issue. Another 22 percent said it is a somewhat serious problem. Just 3 percent said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pam-bondi-and-kash-patel-issue-warnings-after-nabbing-suspect-in-domestic-terrorist-attack-on-tesla-dealership\/\" title=\"Pam Bondi and Kash Patel Issue Warnings After Nabbing Suspect in &#039;Domestic Terrorist Attack&#039; on Tesla Dealership\">political violence isn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t much of a problem, and 1 percent didn&rsquo;t see it as a problem at all. The same poll found eight in 10 voters believe the U.S. is in a crisis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Rage gives people a license to say and do things that they would not otherwise say or do. It is addictive, it is contagious, and it is dangerous,&rdquo; Turley wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist politicians fuel violence by demonizing opponents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2492760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-30-at-1.19.16-AM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3685,11185,63464,35049,5894],"class_list":["post-2492759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-democrats","tag-demonizing","tag-polarization","tag-political-violence","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-30-at-1.19.16-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492763,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492759\/revisions\/2492763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2492760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}