In other words, violence like this has historically been driven by leftists. That said, it is little short of crazy to be blaming this kind of thing on anyone other than those who do the violence.
Charles Guiteau, who shot James Garfield, is known to history as the "disappointed office seeker" -- which is to say a guy who didn't get a job he felt owed.
The others -- John Wilkes Booth (Lincoln) was furious at the "tyrant" Lincoln for his military victory over the Democratic Party's backbone, the slaveholding aristocracy.
Leon Czolgosz, McKinley's assailant, was a fervent socialist and anarchist.
JFK's Lee Harvey Oswald was famously a would-be defector to the Soviet Union and an ardent fan of Castro.
Other would-be shooters include Giuseppe Zangara, who managed to kill the Mayor of Chicago when he was riding in a car with FDR. Said the furious assassin at his trial:" "I have the gun in my hand. I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists."
Likewise was the attempt to kill Truman done by left-leaning Puerto Rican nationalists, two attempts against Ford by radicalized women, and the attempt on Reagan done to impress the left-leaning actress Jodie Foster.
I've brainstormed attempts to unbrand capitalism as social justice on twitter. Forget the astroturfed “angry mob” image of conservative protesters, the only credible threat the United States has to suffer comes from homegrown liberal activists.
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