Spencer Cox: “Attempted assassinations that we had seen, the different…”

“And it's something much deeper than that. Threats of political violence to members of Congress and threats against judges had doubled in less than a decade. Attempted assassinations that we had seen, the different types of shootings, the rise of illiberalism, I guess, for lack of a better term. But the rejection of Western norms of free speech, for example, others, campus protests coming out of 2020, the January 6th and the George Floyd and the riots that we had seen in the streets during 2020.” (05:12–05:21)

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