One year into President Donald Trump‘s second term, the political temperature around the country is at an all-time high. This is hardly surprising given our sustained and intense polarization. The Democratic Party is still reeling from its November 2024 loss. But what it offered, a substitute candidate who entered the scene at the eleventh hour, had little appeal. Former Vice President Kamala Harris is far more mentally competent than was the diminished Joe Biden. However, she represented something average Americans reject: extremism. 

There is much to say about the wrong behavior that both parties have displayed in recent years. And one action or incident does not excuse another, as much as blind partisans on both sides of the aisle would like that to be true. But when looking at both parties collectively, it’s clear that leftists prize mob behavior far more than those on the Right. We have seen this with the Black Lives Matter riots, Hamas-supporting protests and intimidation on college campuses, celebrating near-assassination attempts, and now, protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Making politics physical is a feature, not a bug, of the leftist playbook. Somehow, clearly pointing this out is akin to excusing what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, and glossing over the bad actors who exist on the Right. But those who are honest about what’s in front of us can call out all the bad, while also admitting the Left has a problem. 

Kimberly Ross, Washington Examiner