No, it is not “both sides.”
It is worth noting that this is not especially incisive or contrarian analysis: everyone knows it. Everyone knows that the Left is the violent faction in American public life today. Everyone knows that shop windows were boarded up in November 2020 out of fear of the Left’s reaction to the election, not the Right’s. Everyone knows there is no threat to public order in response to the murder of Charlie Kirk as there was after the death of George Floyd. Everyone knows that a gathering of pro-Palestinians carries with it a high potential for violence, but a gathering of pro-Israel partisans does not. Everyone knows there is a national network of street fighters on the Left, not on the Right. Everyone knows that colleges have to worry about security for conservative events, not leftist ones.
Everyone knows.
To be fair, the media has kept people sufficiently in the dark about many of the depredations of the left that perhaps everyone doesn’t know, but it’s certainly true.
[Wednesday-morning update]
The media are congenitally incapable of properly covering left-wing violence.
Why be all-American when a citizen is only required to be 60% American?
“Aliens are required to answer at least 12 out of 20 questions correctly to pass [the citizenship test].”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/17/exclusive-trump-administration-unveils-changes-us-citizenship-test/
When I took the test, it was only 10 questions. When my daughter took the test, she got the first 6 questions correct, but she was disappointed that the person asking the questions stopped there. She wanted to get a perfect 10.
Having said this, I’m pretty sure that the vast majority of native born Americans would fail the test if they had to take it cold.
I agree. A passing score should be a requirement to enter high school, be employed by any government entity or serve as a juror.
It seems that the “both sides” argument has been replaced with: Are you for free open discussion of ideas, events and opinions and love human life, or are you for killing people who disagree with you. The back and forth banter seems superfluous after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
“ABC Suspends Jimmy Kimmel’s Late-Night Show Indefinitely Over Kirk Remarks”
“Kimmel said that “we hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.””
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/jimmy-kimmel-show-suspended-charlie-kirk/2025/09/17/id/1226821/
Well that’s good news. I’ve been wanting to see that sanctimonious twit unemployed since his pathetic cecil-the-lion cryfest.
Under FCC rules, you cannot knowingly lie about a crime or natural disaster if those lies may cause harm.
“the media has kept people sufficiently in the dark about many of the depredations of the left that perhaps everyone doesn’t know,”
I want to believe this because the alternative isnt great. I do think it is true because blue state news doesnt cover anything that is negative for Democrats nor any legislative happenings. It is like their goal is to keep people ignorant of everything but the weather.
But on issues they think are good for Democrats, its like an activist group wrote the script.
I’ve thought the recent generations of late-night TV hosts are garbage people. Then again, I stopped watching once Steve Allen and Johnny Carson were gone. Probably something to do with being past my sell-by date.
Late-night TV was always past my bedtime.
Speaking of violent leftists, the Red Chinese are so mad about losing to North Vietnam in 1979 that they chose as their UN ambassador a man called F.U. Cong.
https://x.com/ChinaAmbUN
To anyone who says it is a both sides thing, ask what Democrat authors or public figures can’t give readings or speeches on college campuses or other public venues.
A both sides thing would be Democrats like this exist rather than there being an endless list of non-Democrats only.
How many stores were looted after Charlie Kirk’s murder?
How many buildings were burned down or occupied after Charlie Kirk’s murder?
How many people were murdered because of Charlie Kirk’s murder?
We are not the same, and we aren’t the ones with the politically based violence problem. Keep pushing and that can change in ways you’re going to dislike.