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The same people who howl about “political violence” when conservatives raise legitimate concerns are suddenly full of excuses when a Democratic nominee’s texts fantasizing about shooting a political opponent surface. Virginia’s Democratic nominee Jay Jones was revealed to have written that the Republican speaker “gets two bullets to the head,” and the reaction from many on the left has been tepid at best even as the outrage grows across the country. This isn’t about a private joke — it’s about the character of someone asking to be the commonwealth’s top law enforcement officer.
The screenshots, first reported publicly in early October, show Jones going beyond crude hyperbole to write about urinating on graves and imagining violent scenarios involving a colleague’s children, remarks so vicious they ought to disqualify him from public life. He issued a hollow apology and said he was “embarrassed” and “ashamed,” but apologies after being caught don’t erase the judgment such words reveal. Virginians casting early ballots deserve an attorney general who respects life and law, not someone who muses about murder in private messages.
Instead of demanding immediate accountability, many Democratic leaders have offered cautious rebukes while refusing to ask Jones to step aside, and Republicans have pounced with a hard-hitting $1.5 million ad buy to remind voters what was actually written. Even MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough acknowledged the severity, saying Jones should probably be forced to withdraw, yet the party establishment dances around the issue. That double standard — harsh when it’s conservatives, lenient when it’s their own — is not leadership; it’s cowardice.
At the same time, the federal court’s sentence for the man who plotted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh — eight years behind bars — exposes another dangerous trend: liberal sympathies and courtroom leniency for left-leaning or mentally tortured attackers. Prosecutors had sought a sentence of roughly 30 years, yet the judge cited the defendant’s voluntary call to 911 and history as reasons for a much lighter term, prompting outrage and a promised appeal from the Department of Justice. This isn’t mercy; it’s a message that political violence can sometimes be treated as a tragic episode rather than a heinous, career-ending crime.
Put those two stories together and the picture is ugly: violent rhetoric from a Democratic candidate is waved off as a regrettable text, while an attempted assassination draws what many see as an insufficient sentence. Conservatives have warned for years that normalizing violent speech and then excusing action when it comes from the left erodes the rule of law and endangers everyday Americans. It’s not hyperbole to say that public safety and political sanity are on the line when our institutions apply different standards depending on ideology.
Hardworking Americans should not be silent while parties pick and choose which offenses warrant consequences. Virginians deserve an attorney general with integrity who won’t joke about murder, and the nation deserves a justice system that punishes attempted assassinations firmly, not with moral lectures and light sentences. If Democrats won’t hold their own to account, voters must — for the sake of our safety, our children, and the rule of law.
