Victor Davis Hanson: Assassin’s Creed: Breaking Down the Left’s Climate of Violence

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

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Assassins and would-be assassins—Thomas Matthew Crooks, Ryan Routh, Luigi Mangione, and Tyler Robinson—have emerged from the shadows over the past year with their sights set on Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk, and even former UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The common thread is that they’re all products of the radical Left. Victor Davis Hanson breaks down the cultural climate that lowered the bar for political violence and the alarming public reactions that followed on this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “When you combine those two facts, insidious though they are, that A) there are people out there who are unstable, who feel that they will be rewarded, no matter how deranged or demented that idea is, rewarded psychologically by taking the life of a controversial conservative figure, and 2) there may be people within the apparat who are responsible for the security who also feel that the person that they're supposed to protect may be not deserving of the excellent level of protection that is usually accorded to other people, then you have a recipe for disaster, and we've seen it happen.” (0:00) The Disturbing Commonality (0:38) Thomas Matthew Crooks (0:58) Ryan Routh (1:32) Luigi Mangione (2:01) Tyler Robinson (2:13) Common Traits of the Assassins (3:33) Public Reaction (8:30) Conclusion: A Recipe for Disaster 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest short videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1⁠ 👉Want more VDH? Watch Victor’s weekly, hour-long podcast, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” now! Subscribe to his YouTube channel, and enabling notification: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1⁠ 👉More exclusive content are available on Victor’s website: ⁠https://victorhanson.com⁠ 👉The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: ⁠https://secured.dailysignal.com/⁠ X follow link: https://x.com/intent/user?screen_name=DailySignal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thomas Matthew Crooks, Ryan Ruth, Luigi Mangione, Tyler Robinson.
0:06.0	There's something in common that's very disturbing about these people.
0:10.0	All of these assassins and would-be assassins were operating.
0:14.0	They came out of the creepy shadows.
0:16.0	They were operating in a climate in which they felt the bar of the acceptable had been lowered.
0:24.6	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for The Daily Signal.
0:38.3	I'd like to talk about the Assassin's Creed, specifically Thomas Matthew Crooks.
0:45.7	He tried to kill last summer Donald Trump and came within an inch of doing so by hitting his ear.
0:53.1	Wounded severely two others, killed someone tragically,
0:56.7	young assassin. We had another attempt in Florida by Ryan Ruth, and he was also a
1:06.3	a little older, middle-aged man that almost shot Donald Trump. Had he not been spotted,
1:13.3	the next link on that Florida golf course would have put him easily within range and he would
1:18.7	have been killed. But luckily somebody spotted Ruth aiming at Donald Trump for a longer shot
1:24.8	and exchanged gunfire and the would-be assassin fled and he was apprehended.
1:31.8	We also had this assassin Luigi Mangione. He was the sion of a wealthy family. He was well-educated,
1:43.7	and he was angry about unfairness, perceived unfairness in the
1:49.2	healthcare industry, and he assassinated a United Healthcare CEO, shot him, ambushed him,
1:58.2	so to speak. And then finally, there was Tyler Robinson. He was the young
2:03.0	assassin who killed, assassinated Charlie Kirk. There's something in common that's very
2:10.5	disturbing about these people. They were all on the left. Mr. Crooks may have been in the right originally, but from his social media context,
2:22.0	he was involved in some trans illusions.
2:27.3	He was a furrier, supposedly, these people who dress up as animals and find some kind of sexual satisfaction and emulating animals.
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