The Wall Street Journal, which has fucked up and had to issue a retraction already, is currently saying he's independent but highlighting Cox calling him ultra-leftist. So the general tone of the article is still, this guy's a dangerous dem.

If it's true that he's far right, everything fair so far has, the potential to backfire in an insane way.

Trump himself made a public address about Charlie and said "radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives."

If this was radical right violence, it's a fucking huge deal. Not because of the event, but because of the reaction.