Fox News, of course, blames high crime rates in general on the attack. I address this in a post here on Medium by saying quite simply that Republicans cause crime rather than help reduce it, and this is a case in point.

The other talking point by the Fox propaganda machine (which these days includes outlets like 4Chan) is that, "Wait, he was a Berkeley hippie."

I grew up during the counter culture 1970s. Hippie culture was very libertarian. Their evolution into Trump trolls is not very surprising.