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In an interview Thursday on CNN, anchor John Berman asked Democrat candidate for Texas attorney general Nathan Johnson to react to President Trump rightfully declaring that the violence was coming from the “radical left.” Johnson called the remark “irresponsible,” then blamed Trump for the shooting this week at an ICE detention facility in Dallas, in which the gunman marked his bullet casings with the words “ANTI-ICE” and the result was one death and multiple serious injuries.
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The same day on MSNBC, analyst Christopher O’Leary, formerly with the FBI, seriously suggested that the administration would do itself good to change its policies, lest it invite more violence. “We can tone down the rhetoric, and that’s the right message,” he said. “But you also have to start looking at what policies you’ve implemented and what tactics you’re using, because, if you tone down the rhetoric, but you leave those other pieces in place, nothing’s going to change.”
Asked what law enforcement can do to put a stop to the carnage, “Well, the first thing is, you take the underlying drivers away.” The “underlying drivers” O’Leary was referring to, as he said, were “the militarization of ICE and other federal law enforcement, the wearing of the masks, the aggressive tactics,” which is to say, measures the administration has undertaken to enact the agenda President Trump was elected by voters to implement.
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This is a very long and deadly way of saying we can’t have free and fair elections in this country without the threat of Democrats and the media provoking violence, should the results not go their way. That violence, as we’ve seen, comes to pass and people are dead because of it.
Getting shot and then being told it’s your own fault is nothing short of malignant sociopathy. We’re being held hostage by the Democrat Party and the media.
* Original Article:
https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/25/democrats-are-literally-holding-this-country-hostage/