Politics

One Left-Wing Gunman Doesn’t Make a Movement

'But James Hodgkinson!'

There have been many left-wing assassins in U.S. history—and right-wing ones, and no-wing ones. What matters is that he had a military-style assault rifle.

Michael Tomasky
Michael Tomasky 

Special Correspondent

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Michael Tomasky

Michael Tomasky

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