A 57-year-old man is in custody and charged with both murder and attempted murder after he allegedly shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, prompting a statewide manhunt over the weekend.
The story is still developing and has yielded plenty of unanswered questions about Vance Boelter’s background, living situation, and apparent re-appointment to a workforce development board by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. The consensus so far, however, is that his motives for allegedly assassinating at least one Democrat legislator and her husband, as well as targeting another Democrat and his wife were no doubt radical and most likely political.
Corporate media and Democrats alike were quick to amplify the narrative that Boelter voted for Trump. In a sick twist, some of them even appeared to relish that the suspect, according to his alleged pizza delivery roommate, would “be offended if people called him a Democrat.”
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., took it further by demanding “we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA’s legitimization of political violence.”
In his nine-post thread, Murphy claimed that while Republicans “have also been the target of inexcusable violence,” that “this isn’t a ‘both sides’ issue.”
“For the last five years, MAGA has been bathed in political violence,” Murphy alleged, citing the events on January 6, 2021 and President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon those involved who were politically persecuted by the Biden administration.
Murphy ranted that the GOP’s “fetishization of guns” and Trump’s decision to send the National Guard to quell the attacks on immigration enforcement officers in Los Angeles proved “there was no comparison in Democratic messaging.”
The senator is correct in identifying that political violence is not a two-sided issue. He’s wrong, however, to suggest that Republicans are the ringleaders.
Murphy purports that “MAGA,” led by Trump, has been the fuel on the political violence fire over the last five years. It’s Democrats, however, who have spent the better part of a decade calling for literal violence against their political enemies, promising insurrection, threatening Republican-nominated Supreme Court justices, and running an assassination prep campaign that manifested in two attempts on our current president before he was re-elected.
Murphy wants to pretend that Trump pardoning people who entered the Capitol on January 6 means he rubber-stamped political violence, but President Barack Obama pardoned and President Bill Clinton gave clemency to Puerto Rican FALN terrorists who bombed, murdered, and wreaked havoc across American cities. President Joe Biden also granted clemency to convicted cop-killers.
The same blue party that twisted itself in knots to blame Sarah Palin and a map released from her PAC for a deadly shooting in Arizona worked overtime, with help from the FBI, to sweep their rhetoric’s role in the 2017 congressional baseball shooting under the rug.
When a man tried to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home following the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson leak, the blue party continued to demand a “mini revolution” against the high bench.
When rioters and arsonists caused billions of dollars of damage to cities all across the nation in 2020, Democrats and the press not only cheered them on but bailed them out. They applied the same playbook earlier this month to the destructive, violent, and anti-American riots in Los Angeles.
Democrats and their allies in the press even openly rationalized and fawned over Luigi Mangione, the man charged with sniping the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street in December 2024.
Blue politicians like Murphy never fail to use the acts of violent radicals, whose roots are assigned by the corporate media to the right, to grandstand about the evils of Republicans. When it comes to condemning violence from their own and the fiery rhetoric from people such as Rep. Maxine Waters and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that stokes that violence, however, they blatantly refuse.
Suspects like Boelter might appear to associate with the right, but violent attacks are not condoned by conservatives nor their ideology. Democrats, on the other hand, have turned rioting, looting, threatening, and even assassination attempts into tools to advance their agenda and narrative.
In the year of our Lord 2025, political violence is undoubtedly a key part of the Democrat party’s platform and no blame game from Democrat keyboard warriors like Murphy will change that.