From Booth to Boelter: The Left’s Blood-Stained Playbook

The left loves to brand itself as the party of peace and progress, but the evidence says otherwise. Their history, stretching from the Civil War era to today, is riddled with violence, bloodshed, and a willingness to eliminate opposition—literally. It’s time we called it what it is: a pattern.

Don’t take it on faith—take it from the facts.

There’s no shortage of evidence. We’re not just talking about fiery tweets or spicy speeches. We’re talking about bullets and blood. And it starts long before cable news became a thing.

Let’s rewind to 1865, when John Wilkes Booth, a Democrat and Confederate loyalist, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Booth wasn’t just an actor with a gun—he was the embodiment of a political ideology that couldn’t accept a united America without slavery. His bullet was the first in a long line fired by radicals determined to stop the march of freedom and justice.

Fast-forward to 1881—President James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau, a deranged anarchist who would’ve fit right in with Antifa. Garfield succumbed to wounds inflicted by a man who believed in chaos over country.

And in 1901, it was President William McKinley who fell to another left-wing anarchist, Leon Czolgosz. His assassin wasn’t just anti-capitalist—he was anti-American, importing violent ideology from Europe and spilling presidential blood in the name of socialism.

The 20th century didn’t fare better. President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald, a Marxist defector who hated America so much, he defected to the Soviet Union before returning to carry out his grim mission.

In 1954, radical Puerto Rican Marxists stormed the House chamber and shot five U.S. congressmen. They were fighting for independence, sure—but their weapons were bullets, and their platform was soaked in leftist rebellion against American sovereignty.

And we thought we left that kind of political violence in the past—until 2017, when Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson brought an assault rifle to a congressional baseball game and nearly murdered Rep. Steve Scalise and other Republicans. This wasn’t an isolated incident—it was ideological warfare.

The escalation continues. In 2024, UnitedHealthcare CEO was assassinated by Luigi Mangione, radicalized by anti-corporate, anti-capitalist venom spewed by progressive thought leaders. He became a hero to some dark corners of the internet and the left’s own fringe—a twisted martyr of economic envy.

This wasn’t just a killing. It was a message: if you represent success, enterprise, or stability, you’re a target.

Then came the 2024 assassination attempts on President Donald Trump—two of them. Not random acts of violence, but coordinated hate catalyzed by years of hysterical comparisons to Hitler and constant vilification by the media and political elites.

One attempt came horrifyingly close.

And when that attempt failed? The left still blamed Trump—claimed his “rhetoric” was the real danger, not the actual bullet meant for his head.

This is the playbook—normalize violence, then blame the victim. Hollywood, academia, Congress—they all echo the same narrative: Trump is evil, his supporters are fascists, and if something happens to them, it’s just karma.

Need more proof?

Remember when ICE agents were doxxed and assaulted simply for doing their jobs? Radical activists leaked their personal info and whipped up mobs—anarchy, right out of the left’s playbook.

Or take the tragic murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., in 2025—slain amid a wave of pro-Hamas rallies, where antisemitic hate was normalized and American flags were torched while “Allahu Akbar” echoed off the Capitol’s walls.

And when Ilhan Omar was asked to condemn this terrorism—what did she offer?

Nothing. No shame. No remorse.

And then—just this past weekend—Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman, the former House Speaker, and her husband were murdered in their own home. Her crime? Being the only Democrat to vote against giving illegal aliens taxpayer-funded healthcare. You could hear the fear in her voice before her death:

The killer? Vance Boelter, a man deeply tied to left-wing protest movements, appointed and reappointed by Democrat governors, including Tim Walz. And Boelter wasn’t done—he had a rampage in mind. The FBI confirmed it:

Yet what did Governor Walz say afterward? A soft jab at Trump—nothing more. No condemnation of his own role in enabling radicals. Just a smug swipe at “mean tweets.”

Let’s be clear: Trump’s tweets didn’t radicalize Vance Boelter. Tim Walz’s rhetoric, and that of his political kin, did.

Still, the only move in the left’s playbook is to point fingers back at Trump. A New York Times contributor even blamed the shooting on Trump’s pardons of January 6 defendants.

Really? That’s rich—coming from a network that spends its airtime turning Trump into a cartoon villain and praising the people who wish him harm.

This is the true legacy of the modern left. A trail of bodies, from Abraham Lincoln to Melissa Hortman. They’ll call you divisive for pointing it out. But facts are stubborn things—and so is blood.

It’s time we stopped ignoring the pattern. It’s time we held the left accountable. Because America deserves better.

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