On Wednesday, a far-left Bernie Sanders supporter who despised President Trump opened fire on Republican Congress people practicing for a bipartisan charity baseball game.

Now, we all know that if the situation had been reversed, if a President Trump supporter and Bernie Hader had opened fire on congressional Democrats, we would be treated to the full spectacle of media faux outrage.

We get long-winded stemwinders about Republicans creating a climate

of hate and violence. We'd receive stern talking tos about gun culture and polarizing rhetoric.

We know this because it's been a strategic mainstay for Democrats for half a century, going all

the way back to the left blaming the right for a climate of hate that supposedly led to JFK's

assassination by Akami in 1963.

The left is blamed talk radio for the Oklahoma City bombing, Sarah Palin in the right for

the attempted assassination of Gabby Giffords.

By a mentally ill man, by the way, Bernie Sanders even attempted to raise money off that

canard, Confederate flag owners for a massacre at a historically black church, and President

Trump for a stabbing in Portland committed by a Bernie Sanders supporter. But is it right to blame Sanders and leftist ideology more broadly for Wednesday shooting?

No, it isn't. Okay, rhetoric is not directly responsible for violence unless it advocates violence.

Radical jihadism advocates violence. The bulk of its supporters know this and support violence,

a solid contingent of its followers participate

in violence. The same is not true for American brand political leftism as vile as it is.

For the right to equate verbiage with violence, no matter how inflammatory the verbiage,

is to fall prey to the same snowflake syndrome the right condemns on college campuses.

There is no logical gap between attempting to blame right-wing speakers for

supposed violent speech in opposing Black Lives Matter and attempting to blame Sanders for the sins

of a random follower. This leaves two questions on the table. First, are we living through a more

toxic political climate than ever before in American history promoting individual acts of violence

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