Violence Makes Voters More Conservative

The backlash against Antifa violence will be a stampede to the law and order promises of the right.

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Do some people just deserve to be hit?

The belief that violence is justified against certain people is certainly an old one. As in, dawn of humanity old.

There have always been people willing to argue that violence is sometimes justified, but only against certain people and with good reason. Unfortunately, our modern world is no exception.

Any hopes that the next generation might somehow notice how violence has never solved the problems of violence in society is quickly fading, as young students on college campuses around the country don black masks, brandish weapons, and form mobs to physically intimidate and assault people with whom they disagree on principle.

That is, when they can find them.

“Hate speech” as they define it, these deeply misguided activists insist, is violence. And violence must be met with same. Their justification includes the usual: I have the right to physically assault people who, in my opinion, deserve it.

What astute students of history should know, is that violence is no cure for violence. If violence could have cured the world’s ills, it would have done so by now. Dear…