In their perverse pursuit of power, leftist politicians are daily signing the death warrant for the next political assassination. 

It’s now a matter of when, not if. 

You can’t relentlessly call your political enemies “Nazis”, “fascists,” and “tyrants” 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 Charlie Kirk. Or President Donald Trump, who is intimately familiar with what the unhinged left is capable of. 

American politics is a tinder box right now, and leftists like California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker keep striking matches. GOP Rapid Response on Monday released a list of 10 of the more incendiary comments from Democrat pols in the days following Kirk’s cold-blooded murder on Sept. 10. It’s a veritable who’s who of hate from liberal politicians stoking the fires of political violence. 

‘FASCIST!’

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 “turning down the heat.” Newsom’s official state press X account on Friday called Trump adviser Stephen Miller an all caps “FASCIST!” 

“DING DONGS IN THE WHITE HOUSE: IF YOU DON’T WANT US TO CALL YOU A FASCIST THEN STOP DOING FASCIST THINGS,” Newsom’s team declared in a separate post.

Apparently to Newsom and crew, enforcing federal law, restoring America’s borders, and in general doing what voters elected you to do in a constitutional republic is the stuff of dictators.  

According to Pritzker, the duly elected Republican president of the United States and his administration are architects of the next Holocaust.  

“Look, I’ve built a Holocaust museum with survivors, I’ve also read a whole lot about authoritarian regimes, this is the playbook folks,” the morbidly obese liberal told former Biden liar Jen Psaki a week after Kirk was murdered by a suspect saturated in leftist hate. I don’t know what the hell Pritzker is reading, but Trump 2.0 is nothing like the Third Reich’s systematic extermination of millions of human beings. It is a false and vile equivalency. 

Pritzker urged his liberal listeners to do something about it.   

“If you’re not paying attention now and doing something about it, well then you’re going to have to sit down for the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away,” he told Psaki. 

What does that mean? What does that mean to the violence-inclined liberal in the throes of severe Trump Derangement Syndrome? Here’s the Democrat Party’s constant message: You will lose “democracy” if you don’t stop Trump. That seems like a lot to lose. It isn’t true, but it is urgent. 

“This type of vile rhetoric led to Charlie Kirk’s assassination,” the Republican National Committee said in response to Pritzker’s violence-stoking comments. “When will enough be enough?”

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. 

‘Communist Dictator?’

Dems have learned nothing from the past or the present, making the future an increasingly dangerous place for conservatives. You can’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’s Democrat leader, did just that at last week’s Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Legislative Caucus.

“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,” Jeffries said. “There was the progress of emancipation and reconstruction followed by the backlash of Jim Crow, the KKK, and a lynching epidemic.”

And the list of Democrats lighting the political violence goes on and on. 

Failed former Vice President and widely rejected presidential candidate Kamala Harris, trying to sell her blame-everybody-but-me book and Americans on the idea of another Kamala presidential run, recently called Trump a “tyrant” and a “communist dictator” on Rachel Maddow’s cable TV leftist fest. It’s an interesting turn of phrase from the replacement standard bearer of a political party that has lurched aggressively to the far left. 

Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, as she is wont to do, recently vilified Trump as a “fascist,” “wannabe dictator,” “hater-in-chief,” and “racist-in-chief.” 

Rep. Maxwell Frost, a Florida Democrat, declared in the wake of Kirk’s murder that “Fascism is not on the way; it is here.” 

‘Constant Demonization’

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.  

According to multiple media reports, police have identified the suspect as Patrick Murphy, of Purcellville, Virginia. Higgins’ office reported that the message menaced, “I will shoot u @ yer next public rally. Then send you memes with the photos. I know where your f***in kids are too.”

Higgins wrote on X that the threat he received is the “direct result of the nasty lies and constant demonization from the radical left that we’ve seen over the last few years.” He noted Democrat candidate for governor Abigail Spanberger’s recent controversial comments that her supporters should “let their rage fuel them,” and that his opponent in Virginia’s November election, bed-and-breakfast proprietor John McAuliff, is running ads calling him a “crook and a treasonist.”

“It should be shocking to no one that continuing to your call political opponents names like ‘Nazis’ will ultimately lead to violence,” Higgins wrote. 

‘Rage Gives People a License’

Legal analyst Jonathan Turley asserts all that rage comes at a cost in politics. 

In a column 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 1,000-plus percent increase in attacks. That includes the recent sniper attack at a Texas ICE facility that killed a detainee but was aimed at ICE agents, according to law enforcement officials. 

Americans are increasingly alarmed. A recent Quinnipiac University poll found 71 percent of registered voters surveyed believe politically motivated violence in the U.S. today is a very serious issue. Another 22 percent said it is a somewhat serious problem. Just 3 percent said political violence isn’t much of a problem, and 1 percent didn’t see it as a problem at all. The same poll found eight in 10 voters believe the U.S. is in a crisis. 

“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,” Turley wrote.