Only the GOP Celebrates Political Violence
Both parties suffer partisan bloodshed. One glorifies it.
by David Frum
Oct 29, 2022
3 minutes
Updated at 2:40 p.m. ET on October 29, 2022
In March 2020, a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives posted a video message addressed to two Democratic political candidates that issued a threatening challenge if they passed laws he did not like. Standing in his Capitol Hill office, Ken Buck of Colorado’s Fourth District gestured toward a rifle mounted on the wall.
“I have a message for Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke. If you want to take everyone’s AR-15 in America, why don’t you swing by my office in Washington, D.C., and start
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