Both President Lincoln and President McKinley were assassinated. Lincoln was assassinated by a Democrat, while McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist. The trend of left-wing violence continued through the 1970s and continues today with Antifa and allied left-wing movements. John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, was a Democrat and an ardent defender of slavery and the Southern cause. The Confederacy’s political leadership was also overwhelmingly Democratic. Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most Confederate officials came from the Democratic Party, which before the Civil War was the party most closely associated with defending slavery and states’ rights....