His guest was Matt Boyle, the political correspondent of Breitbart News (which Bannon also leads), who decried Governor Cox’s call for unity: "This is not time for kumbaya - this is the time to treat Antifa like we treated Communism in the fifties or Al Qaeda after 9/11 - the fact is we need to crush the ideology of Antifa: We need congressional leaders, law enforcement leaders, government and political leaders, cultural leaders, to actually do something about this, and aggressively go after the people who are spreading this hate. We’re not in a dark time because of our side: were in a dark time because the forces of chaos, the forces of evil, demons (like) that guy who thinks they can win by gunning down a good and decent man in front of thousands and on global television - they know they’re winning by doing that: this is only going to stop when we make it stop. While a section of "new media" tries to draw connections between Robinson and Luigi Mangione, the Maryland man awaiting trial for murdering a health insurance company CEO, and Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who tried to kill Donald Trump at an election rally in Butler Pennsylvania last year, "old media" has broadened the list of targets of recent political violence to include democratic politicians, like Melissa Hortman - the speaker of the Minnesota State Assembly who was shot dead with her husband last July, and Josh Shapiro, the Governor of Pennsylvania, who had to be evacuated along with his family from the Governor's mansion when it was firebombed in April.
Author: Sean Whelan
Published at: 2025-09-13 19:51:00
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