Leon Czolgosz was an anarchist (ergo, leftist) who assassinated McKinley.
It’s worth considering that the left is weak because the US has spent more resources crushing it than any other ideology, both at home and abroad. It’s not just a recent phenomenon that right wing mass killers get apprehended alive and anyone maybe a bit left gets the shit kicked out of them at best.
My friend they just explained why you have to go so far back. The US government went absolute psycho mode on leftists in the 1930s at the end of the propaganda-of-the-deed era, deporting and executing people willy nilly often on mere suspicion. Right wing assassins get tried by the book because they aren’t an existential threat to the system, left wing assassins get their entire social milieu extra-judicially murdered.
Leon Czolgosz was an anarchist (ergo, leftist) who assassinated McKinley.
It’s worth considering that the left is weak because the US has spent more resources crushing it than any other ideology, both at home and abroad. It’s not just a recent phenomenon that right wing mass killers get apprehended alive and anyone maybe a bit left gets the shit kicked out of them at best.
If you have to go back 120 years to find an example, you’re doing it wrong.
My friend they just explained why you have to go so far back. The US government went absolute psycho mode on leftists in the 1930s at the end of the propaganda-of-the-deed era, deporting and executing people willy nilly often on mere suspicion. Right wing assassins get tried by the book because they aren’t an existential threat to the system, left wing assassins get their entire social milieu extra-judicially murdered.