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That was the Mecklenburg County District 1 Republican candidate Aaron Marin, and he has dropped out of the race.

He didn't drop out because politics got inconvenient. He dropped out because his home and vehicle were shot up while his family was inside the house.

This is for a county seat. In Huntersville, North Carolina.

Drive-bys are hitting the suburbs now.

And the man quit the race because he didn't want to be killed.

That sentence should make every normal American stop what they're doing.

We are not talking about a presidential campaign. We are not talking about some national celebrity politician with a security detail and handlers who wear earpieces. This was a county race.

And yet the threat was real enough that a man looked at public service, looked at his family, looked at the bullet holes, and said, "No office is worth this."

Democrats should not be smug about that climate. Nobody should.

Because once politics becomes physically dangerous for ordinary people, the country is not debating anymore. It is deteriorating.

And as I said earlier, the modern Left is deranged and dangerous because the ideology creates madness.

When you live a lie long enough, reality becomes the enemy. And if reality becomes the enemy, eventually the people telling the truth become targets.

Communication is the key. I know that sounds trite, but it is a fact. If you can't communicate with somebody, if you can't let them speak openly without judgment or punishment, the relationship won't survive.

And that is what should give people hope: the Left cannot communicate anymore.

It can chant. It can accuse. It can cancel. It can threaten. It can scream into a camera like the Constitution personally stole its bicycle.

But it cannot persuade.

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