It’s hard to explain to people who aren’t political junkies, but this is shocking:

There is a term for presidential candidates silent about the killings at Planned Parenthood. Soft on terrorism.

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) November 29, 2015

Norman Ornstein is not a liberal or a progressive–he is a member of the conservative think tank AEI (though definitely the more liberal part of that group). For a very long time, he was a Very Serious Person with impeccable center-right credentials, until he co-authored It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism (in which he and Thomas Mann pointed out that the Republican Party has gone nuts).

As I noted yesterday (though since then Ted Cruz has responded by treating the attack as if it were a weather disaster):

Never thought I'd see entire Republican field remain absolutely quiet about a cop killer who killed cop/evangelist pastor #WhatCouldItBe

— MiketheMadBiologistWhoLikeTrumpAlsoHasBoxes (@mikethemadbiol) November 28, 2015

Both sides do not do it: I don’t remember a mentally-ill feminist angered by a lack of intersectionality shooting up a crisis pregnancy center.