"James Hodgkinson seems to have slipped down the memory hole.- Hodgkinson was the left-wing activist who accused Donald Trump and Mike Pence of treason and — “fueled by rage against Republican legislators,” as the Virginia attorney general put it — attempted to massacre a group of Republican congressmen practicing for a baseball game.
- He shot Representative Steve Scalise, along with a Capitol Police officer and two others, and very likely would have murdered a goodly chunk of the GOP caucus if not for the police assigned to protect Scalise, the majority whip.
- Senator Rand Paul was there, too, and escaped injury — that time: A few months later, he was attacked while mowing his lawn, suffering six broken ribs. The man who attacked him, Rene Boucher, is a left-wing Chomskyite social-media rage-artist who wrote about his desire to see someone “fry Trump’s gonads.”
- In 2013, a gunman attacked the conservative Family Research Council.
- In 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson massacred police officers in Dallas.
- Before that, five men associated with the Occupy movement made plans to blow up a bridge in Ohio.
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