Hours after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed, President Trump gave a somber video address from the Oval Office.

To my great fellow Americans, I am filled with grief and anger at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah.

And while law enforcement launched an investigation to find the person responsible for the

attack on Kirk in September, President Trump had already placed blame. Those on the radical left

have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers

and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism

that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.

The president claimed that all of this was part of a larger pattern.

From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year,

which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ice agents,

to the vicious murder of a healthcare executive in the streets of New York,

to the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and three others,

radical left political violence violence has hurt too many

innocent people and taken too many lives.

Then President Trump did something the U.S. has never done before.

He designated a domestic terrorist organization, namely Antifa, which is more of a left-wing

movement.

And while it's unclear what that executive order actually accomplished, the Trump administration's

words and actions raised the question, is left-wing political violence increasing in the United

States? Well, the answer is...

Complicated, I would say, because ideologies are becoming so chaotic, so complex,

and because motivation towards violence appears to be a more important factor these days in a lot of cases than actually ideology.

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