The most disturbing part about suspected White House Correspondents’ Association dinner gunman Cole Allen’s manifesto is that it is indistinguishable from what has become commonplace rhetoric of the Democratic Party and the wider Left. Allen calls President Donald Trump a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor,” almost identical to the language Allen’s congressman, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), has used to attack the president.

Just days before the shooting, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) held a press conference with the words, “Maximum Warfare. Everywhere, All The Time,” emblazoned around the president’s face. Cole seems to have taken Jeffries literally. The line between leftist hatred and elected Democratic officials has been blurred almost to the point of being erased entirely. Allen is not the first leftist to turn Democratic Party rhetoric into violent criminal action.