Cillizza: Political Violence ‘Is Not Unique to One Party’

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CILLIZZA: “I didn't know Charlie Kirk. So I don't -- I'm not going to try to pretend like we were friends. But as a person who talks about politics, I try to be thoughtful about this in my videos, which is, it's just depressing to me, not that there are deranged people or person who did this crime, but that the number of people who are rushing to blame one side or the other for this, like, 'Well, the far right commits political violence at a 70 percent clip versus 30 percent for the left. Well, political violence, look, we have two Trump assassination attempts, Charlie Kirk being murdered, which I think is political, though I don't know for sure. Josh Shapiro's house being the victim of arson. Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's husband being attacked with a hammer in his home. Steve Scalise being shot at a Republican baseball practice. Like, it is not unique to one party, right, or one side. And I think when we think in those terms, we miss the point. We miss the point.”