The Minnesota Shootings: The Spawn Of Hate Rhetoric

People took it as pure political rhetoric when Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s declared spiritual influence, used the phrase “the chickens have come home to roost.” Little did he, Obama, or anyone else know—but for the Marxists of the far-Left in the Democrat Party, that those chickens would appear in the form of unhinged murderers targeting elected officials for assassination.

The far-Left’s gratuitous hate messaging, continuous in the mainstream since Obama’s Marxist coalition erupted onto the main political stage in 2008, has fomented a reality so mired in desperation—a desperation fostered by a litany of manufactured crises and myriad campaigns or smear and hate, all in a quest for power—that the intellectually fragile and brainwashed who follow them are rationalizing murder as a tool of protest and legitimate political discourse. It’s happening increasingly and without discrimination for political ideology, from political rallies in Butler, Pennsylvania, to Florida golf courses and now, to posh neighborhoods in Minnesota.

Case in point.

In a chilling act of politically motivated violence, former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband, Mark, were assassinated in their Brooklyn Park home around 2am on Saturday, while State Sen. John Hoffman (D) and his wife were seriously injured in a similar shooting just five miles away. Authorities have identified Vance Luther Boelter, a former Tim Walz appointee to the Governor’s Workforce Development Board, as the prime suspect in the attacks. Boelter remains at large after escaping a confrontation with police.

The suspect, impersonating a police officer with a vest, badge, and Taser, arrived at Hoffman’s home first, leaving the couple with multiple gunshot wounds. Both are in stable condition following surgery. The gunman then targeted Hortman’s residence in Champlin.

Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley reported that officers responding to Hortman’s home noticed a vehicle with emergency lights and a person posing as an officer:

“When our officers confronted him, the individual immediately fired upon the officers, who exchanged gunfire, and the suspect retreated back into the home…”

The suspect fled the scene and remains uncaptured.

Inside the suspect’s car, police discovered a murderous, unhinged manifesto listing other lawmakers and officials, many Democrats, though specific names were not disclosed.

Additionally, a stack of papers with the phrase “No Kings” was found, directly linking the attack to nationwide anti-Trump protests planned as a “national day of action and mass mobilization” against the Trump administration’s policies.

Melissa Hortman, 55, a progressive Democrat who served in the Minnesota House since 2004, was House Speaker from 2019 until February 2025. She was a vocal advocate for trans rights and pro-choice policies—all sweetheart causes of the far-Left, but faced backlash just five days before her death for voting to cut state health benefits for illegal immigrants in the state, siding with Republicans in a budget compromise.

The decision, which Gov. Walz intends to sign into law, left Hortman saying:

“I know that people will be hurt by that vote, and we worked very hard to get a budget deal that didn’t include that provision. They’re right to be mad at me. I think some of them ar