Why is Gen Z so Okay with Political Violence?

When a lost and coddled generation no longer has actual heroes and is told by their teachers and professors to march, you have a generation of possibly violent snowflakes. 

Frank Miniter | May 21, 2026

“The left is the party of violence,” said Elon Musk in a post on X. He linked to a YouGov poll that shows that younger and more “liberal” citizens are much more okay with violence against their political adversaries.

Outside of the 2020 riots and more, there are many individual examples of the Left’s violence.

A Gen Xer tried to murder President Donald Trump in Butler, Penn., on July 13, 2024. Another member of this generation murdered Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, 2025. Yet another murdered the CEO of UnitedHealthcare on December 4, 2024 -- this alleged murderer, Luigi Mangione, is now a hero to some on the far Left. And then there is Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old man from Torrance, Calif., who allegedly tried to assassinate President Trump by charging with guns into the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton April 25, 2026.

The thing is, these individuals are not strong, independent nihilists. They are, for the most part, of the type of men that, now 30 years ago, Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel Fight Club called “snowflakes” -- “You are not special. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.”

These are fragile, entitled young men of the Left. They are from........

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