Who’s Really Doing the Violence?

Let's dig beneath the rhetoric and see which side is more violent

Christopher Moynihan, the rioter accused of threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries, seen here inside the Senate on January 6

We’ve been hearing it for months — from the Trump administration, from Republican lawmakers, from right-wing media — the same line again and again: “The left is responsible for most of the political violence.”

So let’s ask the obvious question: what are they basing that on? Why keep repeating it? What’s the goal here?