How much more time the Democrats will accept the calls of their followers to violence?
“Hands outside” weekend protests were expected completely. President Trump emerges from the left as few can.
Duration in their first mandate, pink hat protesters took to the street days after its inauguration. That this administration arrived in April without them was something like a miracle.
But Saturday’s demonstrations presented a lower or violent rhetoric.
In New York, a man disguised as Luigi or “Super Mario Bros.” To honor Luigi Mangione, the assassin of the Medical Care Executive Brian Thompson. He wore a sign that asked Trump to be “deposed”, that is, violently overthrown.
In Holland, Mich., Redmond, Oregon, and elsewhere, smiling protesters wore shirts and wore posters stamped with the number “8647”, combining the old term of snakes per murder with a 47 for Trump.
An 8647 protester stopped with Minnesota’s lawyer, General Keith Ellison in Minneapolis.
“Hands off or remote,” he read the message about a natural size guillotine that paraded in Denver.
The protesters destroyed the ice and DHS vehicles in Washington, DC, disfiguring several and drilling their tires, after the week of viral videos of people who accumulate, graffitate or burn teslas they permeate social networks.
Nor is it only property: approximately the weekend, a man was arrested in Portland after he used a laser to try to blind a Tesla employee.
A leftist protester who blocked traffic in a manifestation of “hands outside” in Lafayette, Ind., With his head, a driver who faced him, bleeding the driver’s nose, the local police said.
On Thursday, conservative students who organized a speaker at the University of California-Davis were attacked by masked assailants who broke literature and destroyed stores and tables.
That same day in Harlem, an angry leftist hit an activist prohibited in the face while doing a live interview. They left her bloody and needed stitches.
A new report from the Red Contagion Research Institute found that more than half of the left -wing Americans say that political violence is “acceptable”, with 55% of them seeing “some justification” to kill Trump.
It certainly feels like a barrel of dust, since violence is excused and celebrated online as never before.
I saw my first idea of this trend in my Facebook feed after the November elections: political memes and publications with increasingly wild images and language.
I did not follow any of these pages, or any account similar to them. However, Facebook and that repeatedly show me extreme left comments that deviated to violent fantasy.
One of these was a Photoshop or Melania Trump accelerating Mangane, muttering: “I was waking me if you could do me a little favor.”
Fantasizing with killing Trump, just after two attempts were made in his life, it is perfectly acceptable on the platform that married people to question if masking was effective against Covid.
Another group, guillotines for better America, delights in these images.
A recent publication was subtitled, imagining cartoon children who hit a piñata, “instead of fruits lesson waiting for the wealth of dripping, hitting the rich with blunt instruments until gold flows.”
I have fed me multiple versions of a supposed still of “The Simpsons” that shows a Trump covered with blood in a coffin with the date of April 12, 2025. It is false, but disturbingly popular.
This content child serves me regularly. That is, supposedly, humor.
Hysterical online aggression is beginning to spill the Internet towards the real world. It feels dangerous, as well as the period prior to the riots “mostly peaceful” of 2020 who left 25 people dead.
We saw the cities burn like the Democrats, and their friends from the media, tried to apologize for horror.
But now democratic politicians have very quiet Gods.
For months they have stirred their base.
“We are at war,” shouted the Lamony representative McIver (D-NJ) in February, while denouncing what she called the “hostile acquisition” of Trump of the government that was chosen to lead.
“We have to fight in the streets,” said Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD.).
Now, the fuse is illuminated, and the chosen fire marks have nothing to say.
The voters chose Trump, very recently and very specifically, to shake Washington.
It is well to protest, oppose aloud to the changes Trump was chosen to do. That is part of the United States political legacy.
But “Murder culture”, as the main author of the NCRI report calls the new peak in violent rhetoric, it is not.
Democrats don’t have a pass this time. They put this ball rolling; They possess it. His silence is now breath.
They need to be the ones who stop him. Time to assume responsibility and reduce temperature.
Karol Markowicz is co -author of the book “Stolen youth”.
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