Jay Jones, the Democrat candidate for attorney general in Virginia, made the most bloodcurdling endorsement of political violence I have seen from an elected official—and none other than Barack Obama spent the weekend sidling up to him.
Brief recap: Jones has not denied reports that he sent text messages fantasizing about shooting Todd Gilbert, the Republican former speaker of the House of Delegates. He said he would rather shoot Gilbert twice than kill Adolf Hitler or Pol Pot. He later said he wished Gilbert’s young children would die in their mother’s arms. He sent these messages to a Republican and, when she asked him to stop, he sought to justify these violent thoughts with one sentence:
“Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”
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That’s the key justification for political violence: Our agenda is more important than your life, or in this case, than your children’s lives.
That’s the kind of evil thinking that led to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and this mentality is growing on the Left.
Jay Jones’ Response
When National Review’s Audrey Fahlberg reached out to Jones to comment, he remained silent. She published the story, and only then did Jones express remorse.
Even then, his statement treated the texts as if they were a youthful indiscretion, not something as recent as August 2022.
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https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/03/democrats-now-own-horrific-political-violence-jay-jones/