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The Democrats want another long, hot summer of violence

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In a video message to constituents last week, Sen. Andy Kim agonized over the “chaos in the streets that ICE has unleashed” on the city of Newark, NJ. The Garden State Democrat pledged to “do everything I can to try to stop this chaos.”

What nonsense. If anything, the senator and his fellow Democrats have done everything in their power to inflame passions and drive violent agitators onto those very streets — putting the safety of civilians and law enforcement alike in jeopardy.

They don’t seem to care that they are encouraging political violence. Rather, they appear to welcome civil disruptions that they see as expressions of exploitable political zeal. This is hardly the first time Democrats have put good sense to one side to court the violent and disturbed. 

Readers of my new book, “Blood & Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America,” know exactly what they’re seeing unfold in Newark and the horrors that could flow from it. 

“It’s a concentration camp, and they are disappearing people,” said one deranged union organizer of the Newark-based Delaney Hall detention facility, where the Trump administration is housing immigration deportation targets. Absurd though that claim is, it mirrors assertions from Democratic lawmakers that the conditions in that facility are “inhumane,” even though they insist they’ve been barred from witnessing them. 

But Democrats have not been denied........

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