Senator Mike Lee literally joked about the assassination of Speaker Hortman. Donald Trump Jrs Halloween costume was literally of Paul Pelosi’s attacker. Jesse Waters literally said this is war. Trump has repeatedly shared photos of flags of Joe Biden being tied up.
In the last few years we've seen:
- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk
Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.
The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.
This is exactly the kind of dangerous and harmful rhetoric we need everyone to call out and condemn.
This is the watershed moment where things need to change.
This was posted one day after my friend — one of Minnesota’s elected representatives — and her husband were assassinated in a politically-motivated attack. One day after another elected representative and his wife took 17 bullets from the assassin.
We cannot accept this from a sitting United States Senator. Everyone – on both sides of the aisle – needs to condemn this.
We cannot normalize political violence in America.