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Question After Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting: Is California an Incubator for Leftist Violence?

Following the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump over the weekend, some Americans have begun to posit a connection between the alleged shooter’s actions and the incubation of radical beliefs in California’s education system.

On Monday, Cole Tomas Allen, a resident of Torrance, California, was charged with attempting to kill the president after being taken into custody following the incident at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, D.C.

The suspected shooter graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a mechanical engineering degree, interned at NASA, and was a part-time teacher in California at the time of his arrest. A review of his social media posts reportedly reveal Allen compared Trump to Adolph Hitler and encouraged detractors of the president to buy guns.

“[Cole Tomas Allen is] a product of a very sophisticated indoctrination platform that is ubiquitous in the realm of higher education,” Lance Christensen, vice president of government affairs and education policy at the California Policy Center, told The Daily Signal.

“It’s almost a given that every public college and university in California, and across the nation, is the bastion of left-wing radical intellectuals,” he said. 

Federal Election Commission filings indicate that Allen donated $25 to ActBlue, a........

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