If We’re Going To Be A Nation of Equals, We Need To Be A Nation of Equalizers

The shooting of a Republican leader in Congress and others by a disturbed left-wing attacker at a baseball practice in northern Virginia early Wednesday morning brings to mind all sorts of problems in America:  the viciousness of our politics, the absurdity of our public rhetoric, the prevalence of violence. It'd be easy for conservatives to play the same game so many liberals have played in comparable events — to play up the shooter's work as a Bernie Sanders-for-president volunteer, that he w

The shooting of a Republican leader in Congress and others by a disturbed left-wing attacker at a baseball practice in northern Virginia early Wednesday morning brings to mind all sorts of problems in America:  the viciousness of our politics, the absurdity of our public rhetoric, the prevalence of violence. It'd be easy for conservatives to play the same game so many liberals have played in comparable events — to play up the shooter's work as a Bernie Sanders-for-president volunteer, that he w…