BUT YOU TOLD ME THE LEFT WAS A COLLECTION OF TERRORIST TOTALITARIANS

Okay, I'm confused: Everyone tells me that the Democratic Party is part of "the angry left," and yet, according to a new CBS poll, Democrats are less comfortable with political anger than Republicans:



You could argue that Democrats are upset at angry talk from Republicans and don't consider anything on their own side to be objectionable. But what's shown up in recent news stories on this subject? Kathy Griffin's severed Trump head, James Hodgkinson's Facebook posts and letters to the editor, a production of Shakespeare in which the assassinated Julius Caesar is a Trump-like figure. If Democrats were as angry as they're said to be, you'd expect them to be circling the wagons around people whose words and deeds go over the line (or, in the case of Shakespeare in the Park, are said to do so).

But Democratic voters aren't saying that. The notion that rank-and-file Democrats want to be campus-speech-deplatforming, Antifa-window-smashing, Trump-effigy-decapitating thugs isn't borne out by the numbers.

So, no, Erick Erickson, we're not "the American ISIS." The overwhelming majority of Democrats don't even like incivil speech. We like it less than your people do.