The Violent Ones

The left has always loved violence:

The Left has been prone to violence since Year Zero. In the early 1900s, the United States was awash in communist and anarchist bombings, culminating in the deaths of 30 people on Wall Street in 1920. Most cultural depictions of the ’60s upheavals were of a genteel, peace-loving movement, but it was imbued with extremists, as well. By the 1970s, left-wing terrorist groups such as the Weather Underground were setting off bombs at the Capitol, police stations, the Pentagon, and state attorneys general offices. In an 18-month period between 1971 and 1972, there were an amazing 2,500 bombings in the U.S. by leftist groups. Worse, then as now, violence was often ignored or idealized by the “intellectual” Left. When I was young, leftists would sometimes commemorate mass murderers such as Che Guevara or Mao Zedong. Today, feted contemporary public intellectuals such as Ta-Nehisi Coates write books celebrating terrorism. The late Kathy Boudin, a former Weather Underground member who was involved in a Brinks truck robbery that killed two innocent people, operated the Columbia University’s “Center for Justice” for decades.

It's their history, but it's become our problem...