It was reported on Thursday that a bullet was fired into the home of North Carolina candidate Pat Harrigan, who is running for Congress. The bullet landed close to where his children slept. No one has been arrested, and the investigation is ongoing.
While it remains to be discovered who the assailant is, it is not unreasonable to speculate that this incident might have been politically motivated. Given many prominent politicians’ recent warnings about supposed rising political violence, one might think this incident would have made national news.
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Nope. The candidate is a Republican. Chances are you have never heard this story.
Compare this to how Hillary Clinton and others on the Left portrayed the assault on Paul Pelosi last week, in which they immediately blamed right-wingers for inspiring the attack.
The 82-year-old husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was assaulted by someone who appeared to be mentally ill and who was originally reported to be a right-winger. Then, he was reported to be a left-winger.
Given conflicting reports, we honestly don’t know what kind of winger he is, but we do have reason to believe he’s absolutely crazy.
But that explanation doesn’t do much for Democrats one week out from the midterm elections, does it? With no solid information or evidence, Hillary Clinton took the “rising right-wing violence” angle and ran with it.
Other left-leaning folks immediately followed her lead.
Democrats needed little proof for this imagined, exclusively right-wing threat. But where was the concerned outrage from most Democrats nationally when a Marco Rubio canvasser was brutally assaulted recently by self-identified Democrats for the crime of … being a Republican? In fact, not only did we not hear prominent national Democrats remark on the incident, but local Florida media even tried to deny that the attack was politically motivated.
Does anyone recall Clinton and her political allies making a big stink about a Bernie Sanders supporter shooting at Republican members of Congress while they were practicing baseball in 2017? Yeah, me either.
I do distinctly remember leftists actively celebrating Rand Paul’s neighbor for violently assaulting the senator in 2017. Paul’s political beliefs mattered far more to those cheering his attack than the violence committed against him. Even Nancy Pelosi’s own daughter joined the leftist mob at the time.
To his credit, the senator this week called for an end to political violence and wished Paul Pelosi a “speedy recovery.”
Political violence can come as easily from the Left as it does from the Right. The point here is not that one side is more violent than the other, as Democrats are so eager to contend, but to demonstrate that Democrats, as shown by their recent history of actions and words, care a lot more about portraying right-wingers as violent threats than actual violence.
In Sen. Paul’s case, many leftists even outright cheered the violence. The political leanings of those involved are what these left-leaning figures prioritize, not the harm done to human beings.
If North Carolina Republican candidate Harrigan were a Democrat, it is highly likely that left-wing figures would be capitalizing on the attack all the way until the election, declaring that dangerous MAGA terrorists were roaming the land.
But Harrigan is a Republican, so who cares.
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There is no clear picture of what the crazy man who attacked Paul Pelosi believes, but Hillary Clinton is not going to let a pesky little thing like the truth get in the way of a good Democratic propaganda campaign.
The right thing to do is for everyone across the political spectrum to denounce all political violence. But at this point, are Democrats even capable of that?
Jack Hunter (@jackhunter74) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog. He is the former political editor of Rare.us and co-authored the 2011 book The Tea Party Goes to Washington with Sen. Rand Paul.
