You have to be awfully smart to believe something this stupid. In a Manhattan Institute survey of Democratic voters, 46 percent said they believed it was definitely or probably true that "the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in July 2024 was orchestrated by his supporters to increase sympathy for him."

That's a startlingly high number for a party whose members are increasingly drawn from the ranks of college graduates and those with graduate school degrees. And for a party whose articulate leaders are prone to dismissing Republican talking points as "conspiracy theories."

It's uncomfortably akin to the finding of CNN's Andrew Kaczynski, who reported, after an examination of 4,700 social media posts from Cole Allen, the accused White House Correspondents' Association dinner assailant, that "he shared a lot of posts claiming the Butler assassination attempt was staged." Allen, a registered Democrat and small Kamala Harris contributor, evidently shared the view of roughly half of his fellow partisans.

This third assassination attempt on Trump within the past two years is not the only example of violent assaults by leftist or progressive Democrats. There's the 2017 wounding of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) — then the House majority whip — by a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) aiming to kill Republicans practicing for a two-party congressional baseball game, the 2018 would-be assassin stalking the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and the killing of Turning Point USA head Charlie Kirk in September.

There's been violence directed at Democrats as well, some of........

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