Democrat projection justifies all manner of damage.

Mike McDaniel | June 7, 2026

Democrats excel at several tactics, among them: cheating in elections and projection. One can be certain that whatever Democrats are accusing Normal Americans of doing or intending to do, they’re already doing or are planning to do. A particularly common bit of Democrat projection these days is the assertion that political violence is a Republican tactic. Mostly peaceful but fiery Democrats are merely helpless bystanders and victims.

We’ve seen plentiful evidence of this sort of projection in the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests, and most recently in the New Jersey anti-ICE protests. We’ve seen it in the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the three attempted assassinations—there have likely been more of which we’re not aware—of President Trump. We saw it in the disruption of worship services in St. Paul. We see it in the lunatic rhetoric of Democrat “it” boy, Hasan Piker, justifying all manner of violence, including the murder of insurance CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione (allegedly). Piker justifies that murder, as well as shoplifting and looting, by claiming “social murder.” Anyone doing anything Democrats don’t like, such as making legal profits, may be justifiably killed, and become an object of female Democrat lust.

In the meantime, Normal Americans—largely but not exclusively Republican—go about their lives. They don’t have the time or inclination for protests, and they know very well that breaking the law for any reason will surely put them in prison. They adhere to Christian morality, so they’re not going to engage in political, or any other kind of violence.

At PJ Media, Aaron Hanscom reports Franklin Carmargo of Prager U interviewed denizens of Los Angeles about political violence. The results are as unsurprising as they are disturbing:

The college students he interviewed sounded like so many Western officials do after an Islamist terrorist attack, when they dismiss the ideology and blame it on mental illness. One young man said: “It’s like they’re just crazy people, and that’s the thing that unites these people who try to kill people. It’s not left or right. It’s just crazy.”

Another student said that he’s currently seeing more violence on the right. When asked by Camargo to name some examples, however, he fell silent. A young woman, after hearing the list of recent incidents attributed to leftist political violence, was asked whether she could identify comparable examples from the right. She at least managed an answer: “Not really.”

This interview was particularly chilling:

Another student said that he’s currently seeing more violencee on the right. When asked by Camargo to name some examples, however, he fell silent. A young woman, after hearing the list of recent incidents attributed to leftist political violence, was asked whether she could identify comparable examples from the right. She at least managed an answer: “Not really.”

This interview was particularly chilling:

Camargo then moved to a pro-communism rally in downtown Los Angeles. He first interviewed a man of senior citizen age and wearing a Che Guevara shirt. When asked by Camargo if there’s too much political violence, he chillingly answered: “Perhaps not enough.”

A Che T-shirt. Must have been one of those violent Republicans.

Camargo then mentioned his shirt and asked if he knows Che was a murderer. His answer sounded like something Luis Mangione groupies might say when justifying the assassination of Brian Thompson: “No, Che Guevara was a revolutionary who attacked the forces of the ruling classes.” He proceeded to claim that Guevara “did not execute a lot of people.” The truth, as told by Mary Grabar in a 2011 PJ Media article, is quite different: “Che’s delight was in shooting 240 defenseless victims, some as young as 15. Political prisoners say the real number is much higher. Che also delighted in having people and their children rounded up off the street and forced to watch executions.”

Projection. This is classic:

As would the next man interviewed by Camargo — also of senior citizen age — who wore a box on his head marked with pro-Palestine, pro-Cuba, and pro-Maduro messages. He offered his opinion on political violence: “I don’t think it’s coming from the left. I think it is something embedded in the society at the right.”

But this must have been cherry-picked editing, right? Not so much. This was downtown Los Angeles. OK, one is likely to find a preponderance of this kind of non-thinking in LA, and in much of California, but the point is one need not work very hard to find this kind of projection and communist/anarchist thinking in any Blue state, and certainly in portions of Red states. 

There’s no justification for violence, not unless in lawful self-defense. Republican men, reviled by Democrats as toxic, know one of the essentials of manhood is the ability to use violence when necessary while always keeping it otherwise under tight control. Political violence is particularly unjustified because it violates the social contract and strikes at the rule of law. It pushes us ever closer to civil war and the dissolution of Western Civilization. Who, trying to raise a family and pay their mortgage, wants that?

People wearing Che t-shirts and boxes on their heads, apparently.

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.