“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

I can't help but hear Lewis say that in my head whenever I hear about the left's approval of violence, or even lately, assassination. //

According to a Rutgers Social Perception Lab-Network Contagion Research Institute brief, 55.2% of Americans on the left “reported that if someone murdered Donald Trump, they would be at least somewhat justified.” Overall, 38.5% hold the same belief. //

I see a lot of people who talk about the left's violent tendencies and wonder how people can think that this kind of evil should be permissible.

Easy. They don't see it as evil. //

They don't see that what they're advocating for is inherently evil because they've been told repeatedly that evil is what they're standing against. //