OPINION PIECE FROM JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON, THERE CAN BE NO PEACE OR UNITY WITH A VIOLENT, UNREPENTANT LEFT

In the days since Charlie Kirk’s assassination by a radical Antifa terrorist, a refrain has arisen in the corporate press and the political establishment that we must come together, lower the temperature, tone down the rhetoric, and condemn political violence on both sides. In order to have peace, they say, we have to have unity.

But there can be no peace or unity without first telling the truth, and the truth is that both-sidesism, the polite fiction that the American left and right have a problem with political violence, is a damnable lie — and everyone peddling it is a moral coward.

Case in point is David French, the man willing to say anything for a paycheck and a column at The New York Times. Over the weekend, French published a piece, “There Are Monsters in Your Midst, Too,” arguing that America has a problem with political violence on both the right and the left. To call out the left for Kirk’s assassination, or argue that the left is inherently more violent than the right, says French, is nothing more than confirmation bias. In his usual scolding schoolmarm style, French argues that “partisan blindness” makes it easy to see the evil of the opposition while explaining away or justifying the evil on our side.

Now normally I don’t pay much attention to French, who has built a lucrative media career by punching down at people who are weaker than him — Christians, the working class, conservative families who don’t think Drag Queen Story Hour at their local library is a “blessing of liberty.” The kind of people despised by his leftist paymasters at the Times. ....read more at No Peace Or Unity With A Violent, Unrepentant Left