From John Wilkes Booth to Antifa: The Evolution of Left-Wing Terrorism
Both President Lincoln and President McKinley were assassinated. Lincoln was assassinated by a Democrat, while McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist. The trend of left-wing violence continued through the 1970s and continues today with Antifa and allied left-wing movements. John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, was a Democrat and an ardent defender of slavery and the Southern cause. The Confederacy’s political