As a political scientist, I never felt comfortable with the suggestion that the AZ shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, was influenced by rightwing rhetoric. The tip off, for me, is that he shot multiple victims and cited, as one of his favorite book, The Communist Manifesto. I don’t see how anyone influenced by free market, constitutional principles would ever admire the work of Karl Marx.
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