Republican congressman and House Majority Whip [score]Steve Scalise[/score], a victim of communist Bernie Sanders-inspired progressive terrorist James Hodgkinson, who opened fire against Republican members of Congress as they practiced for an annual charity baseball game last month, has been returned to ICU and his condition has been downgraded from “fair” to “serious” because he has contracted an infection, members of his staff posted on Rep. Scalise’s Twitter account:

Update from @MedStarWHC on the condition of Majority Whip Steve Scalise: pic.twitter.com/YnEDhiX4gO

— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) July 6, 2017

Progressive leftists, Marxists, and communists have long used violent rhetoric that risks inspiring such acts as we saw last month in the attempted mass political assassination of Republican members of Congress.

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In 2008, Barack Obama said, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”

More recently, in April of this year, a progressive professor called for the execution of Republican congressmen and for President Donald Trump to be hung.

In May, another Bernie Sanders supporter, 35-year-old Jeremy Joseph Christian, murdered two men in Portland, Oregon.

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In March, former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch called for more marching, blood, and death on the streets.