Actions, we know, have consequences. And a committed Marxist's cold-blooded murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night was the natural and inevitable consequence of a conscientious, years-long campaign to dehumanize Jews and otherize all supporters of the world's only Jewish state. Seriously, what did you think was going to happen? Some of President Donald Trump's more colorful all-caps and exclamation mark-filled social media posts evince an impending jackboot, we're sometimes told. Hold aside, for now, columnist Salena Zito's apt 2016 quip about taking Trump seriously but not literally. Words either have meaning or they don't. And many left-wing Americans have, for a long time now, argued that they have tremendous meaning. How often, as the concept of the "microaggression" and its campus "safe space" corollary took off last decade, were we told that "words are violence"? (I'll answer: a lot!
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