On Nov. 5, 2009, U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar.” He then opened fire at Fort Hood, murdering 13 people and wounding dozens.
Hasan’s jihadist ties were clear. He had business cards identifying him as “SoA” (Soldier of Allah), emails with al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, and an explicitly Islamist ideology. He had even a presentation defending suicide bombings under Islamic law.
But the Obama administration concluded the massacre was simply generic “workplace violence.”
On April 25, 2026, Caltech-educated “Teacher of the Month” Cole Tomas Allen tried to breach security at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, opening fire outside the ballroom where President Trump and top officials were gathered.
Allen left behind an explicit anti-Trump manifesto in which he called himself the “Friendly Federal Assassin,” railed against Trump administration policies, and listed targets connected to the administration. He had previously posted numerous anti-Trump sentiments online.
The motive eluded President Barack Obama, who took to social media to offer the usual meaningless boilerplate about condemning all violence while saying that “we don’t yet have the details about the motives.”
Allen has been charged with attempting to assassinate the president.
This denial of obvious ideological motivation is a familiar playbook—once used for radical Islamic terrorism, now repurposed for radical left violence. False equivalence and moral evasion replace any sober analysis.
Recall Obama’s 2015 National Prayer Breakfast remarks, where he warned against getting on our “high horse” about ISIS and equated their barbarism to the Crusades, the Inquisition, American slavery, and Jim Crow—straining to dilute the unique threat of Islamic terrorism by dragging in distant and even revisionist history.
But left-wing terrorism, like Islamic terrorism before it, isn’t a “both sides” problem. The pattern has escalated over the past decade amid the left’s dehumanization of Trump and MAGA as threats to democracy.
It wasn’t a Republican who nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., at the 2017 congressional baseball practice. It wasn’t a Republican who slaughtered six—including three nine-year-old children—at Nashville’s Covenant Christian School in 2023. It wasn’t a Republican who attacked a Minneapolis Catholic church in 2025, murdering two children with anti-Christian and “kill Trump” rage. And it wasn’t a MAGA supporter who assassinated Charlie Kirk in 2025, as late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel falsely and irresponsibly claimed.
What these attackers all shared is that they were radicalized leftists whose manifestos and digital footprints echoed core Democratic talking points.
Allen’s attack marks the third attempt on President Trump’s life in less than two years, following the 2024 golf course incident in West Palm Beach and the 2024 Pennsylvania rally shooting, when a bullet grazed Trump’s ear and firefighter Corey Comperatore heroically died. No president has faced this many credible assassination attempts in such a short time.
Unlike jihadist attacks, which often appear random with mass murder as the primary objective, these radicalized Democrats target conservatives, MAGA, and Republicans with specificity.
Prominent Democrats offered the same deflection after Charlie Kirk’s assassination as they have since the most recent attempt at President Trump’s life. They have made generic condemnations, vague platitudes, and a complete refusal to confront the obvious ideological radicalization that produced his killer.
Thus far, the only thing more predictable than violence carried out by indoctrinated leftists against MAGA targets is the left’s ability to move on instantly while taking zero accountability—no introspection, no self-examination, no acknowledgment of the toxic rhetoric and dehumanization that fuel the violence.
When will such accountability arrive?
After Kirk’s assassination, I expected a national reckoning with the spiritual and cultural rot producing these terrorists. I even wrote a book about it, “For Christ and Country: The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk.” But I was naïve to have such high expectations.
Not only did no reckoning come, it was actively suppressed. I experienced some part of this when Amazon refused to offer a Kindle version and has repeatedly blocked physical sales, telling customers it could not ship the book to their addresses.
As I argue in my book, the modern Left rejected God and the Judeo-Christian foundations of this nation, replacing them with government power, identity politics, and moral relativism. This created a gaping spiritual vacuum filled with rage, envy, and hatred. These can turn teachers, engineers, and even “Teacher of the Year” award winners into assassins.
Recently the Southern Poverty Law Center has been exposed for manufacturing and funding hatred. My book explains how the Anti-Defamation League has worked to cover up left-wing violence and falsely insists that America’s real problem is right-wing extremism.
The denial, false equivalence, and refusal to name the ideology driving this violence only fuels more violenceand makes the next attack inevitable.
This isn’t random. It is the direct and predictable result of a worldview that treats conservatives, Christians, and American patriots as existential enemies who must be eliminated.
The only thing all these killers have in common is that they were radicalized by the Left. It is well past time for an honest conversation. America desperately needs to reckon with the pathological ideas that are fueling violence. Lives depend on it.
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