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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Recently, two Israeli diplomatic employees in Washington, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were shot. Apparently, the killer, Elias Rodriguez, emptied his handgun and fired off 21 rounds, killed them almost instantly, and then ran into the museum where they were working and started to act as if he was a victim until he shouted out “Free Palestine.”
And what are we to make of this? I think what we’re seeing throughout the United States right now is a lowering of the bar of what’s acceptable in terms of violence.
We saw that Luigi Mangione became a cult hero to the Left because he, in a premeditated fashion, killed…
