Jack Kemp forwards this:

http://townhall.com/columnists/jackkerwick/2017/02/06/the-importance-of-language-leftist-thugs-are-terrorists-not-protesters-or-snowflakes-n2282113?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
The Importance of Language: Leftist Thugs are Terrorists, not Protesters or Snowflakes

Jack Kerwick
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While violence has always had a home on the political left, and while the left in America has been engaging in violence from at least the time of the late 1960s, forces on the thuggish left became emboldened during Obama’s tenure in the White House. Within the last year or so, they have become especially brash and merciless toward Trump supporters.
This came to a head recently at Berkeley when "protesters” prevented provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos from delivering a planned speech. Mobs of anti-Milo and anti-Trump demonstrators were on the scene. No small number were self-described "anti-fascists” (or "antifa”) clad in black with masks concealing their faces. Things turned feral as fires were lit, Molotov cocktails were thrown, property was destroyed, officers were assaulted, and innocents were tear-gassed and beaten up with various weapons.
And the police arrested…no one.
While it’s true that most of those on the left do not physically engage in violence, for two reasons this is neither here nor there.
First, it only took 19 terrorists on September 11, 2001 to murder nearly 3,000 innocent Americans while causing pain and suffering to many more. Within an hour or so, fewer than two dozen immigrants brought the country to a standstill and irrevocably altered its history. A minority of rotten apples, however small it may be, can ruin the bunch.
Second, those leftist Democrats in political office, the media, academia, and Hollywood, those who aren’t literally initiating violence against innocents, are hardly off the hook. The rabble in the streets functions as their strong-arm wing, the Democrats’ foot soldiers. Those Democrats who object to this characterization of their relationship to the thugs, who explicitly disavow violence while qualifying their denunciations with the very same anti-Trump vitriol that gave rise to the violence, want to have it both ways.

The Democratic left’s demonization of President Trump and his supporters—after all, it was the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, who described "half” of those backing Trump (over 30 million Americans) as "deplorable”—created the climate of hatred, irrationality, and thuggery that is now consuming cities and college campuses around the country.

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