Overview

• Editor-at-large Geoffrey Ingersoll wrote an opinion piece titled “Enough Is Enough … I Choose VIOLENCE” that urges conservatives to “choose violence.”
• The column includes explicit lines calling for “actual violence” and stating “I want blood in the streets,” along with calls to be “wildly disproportionate.”
• The Daily Caller added an editor’s note saying it does not condone violence and framing the examples as hypothetical self-defense rather than political or extrajudicial action.
• Editor-in-chief Dylan Housman defended the piece to The New York Times as advocating that assailants be “punched back,” rejecting portrayals that it endorses violence over political disagreement.
• The piece drew swift condemnation on social media as coverage placed it in the context of recent high-profile political violence, including Charlie Kirk’s September 10 assassination.