LETTER: Political violence is bad, but …

John Macdonald Las Vegas

2 days ago

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (Mandel Ngan/P ... — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

I agree with the Sunday column by Victor Joecks decrying political violence. He ignores, however, this country was founded on political violence.

Mr. Joecks suggests that Democrats stop “playing footsie with those engaged in political violence.” But he fails to mention that the greatest act of political violence in this country since the Civil War was committed on Jan. 6, 2021, when a sitting president urged his armed followers to go down to the Capitol and fight like hell or they would not have a country anymore. Most of us know what followed.