By Editorial Board

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J.D. Vance rejects the idea of unity with a remorseless left. While filling in for his fallen friend as host of the popular Charlie Kirk radio show, the vice president explained his reasoning.

“There is no unity with someone who lies about what Charlie Kirk said in order to excuse his murder,” Mr. Vance said. “There is no unity with the people who … argue that Charlie Kirk, a loving husband and father, deserved a shot to the neck because he spoke words with which they disagreed.”

This was a veiled rebuke of the likes of Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, who played a “both sides” moral equivalency game in his call for “unity.” Seeking approval from a CNN anchor, Mr. Cox even accused Mr. Kirk of saying “some very inflammatory things” when nothing could be further from the truth.

Mr. Kirk was an evangelist at heart, patient and attentive. His religiously motivated mission was to engage in peaceful dialogue with anyone willing to listen. Corporate-owned media outlets now contort benign comments of the Turning Point USA founder beyond recognition to distract from the mile-long rap sheet of the left’s uncivil activism, which set the stage for his death.

Take the deadly Black Lives Matter riots. This outfit didn’t spring out of nowhere in the summer of 2020. The group turned over its administrative operations to Thousand Currents, a well-funded liberal nonprofit that boasted veteran domestic terrorist Susan Rosenberg as a member of its board of directors from 2014 to 2021.

Ms. Rosenberg founded the group in the 1980s that set off bombs at the U.S. Capitol, the National War College and the Washington Navy Yard. She was nabbed in New Jersey unloading 740 pounds of dynamite from a U-Haul trailer, enough explosive power to level a high-rise.

In the 1970s, the Weather Underground bombed 25 buildings, including the Capitol, the Pentagon and a New York City police station. The group’s body count included two officers and the driver of a Brinks truck, who was gunned down in a bank heist.

Other leftist groups, such as the Black Liberation Army, killed police in New York and New Jersey. The Symbionese Liberation Army killed an Oakland school superintendent before securing notoriety by kidnapping an heiress in the name of “revolution” and “destruction of the capitalist state.”

Puerto Rican communists formed the FALN in 1974 and set off 130 bombs, one of which killed four innocent patrons eating lunch at a Manhattan tavern. Instead of shunning these monsters, the left elevates them. The Democratic machine rewards Weather Underground alumni with professorships, book deals and public speaking engagements.

In solidarity with the radicalized left, President Clinton commuted the prison sentences of Ms. Rosenberg and 16 FALN terrorists. Today’s leftism embraces the same hatred of police and nihilism it inherited from the 1970s radicals. It’s one cause.

“If we want to stop political violence like what happened to Charlie Kirk, we have to be honest about the people who are celebrating it and the people who are financing it,” Mr. Vance explained.

In an Oval Office press conference Monday, President Trump expressed readiness to start cracking down. “We have some radical groups and they got away with murder, and also I’ve been speaking with the attorney general about bringing RICO against some of the people you’ve been reading about that have been putting millions and millions of dollars up for agitation,” the president said.

Lasting unity is possible only when Democrats renounce their dark past.