Yes, Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner senseless with a cane on the floor of the U.S. Senate, but that was a long time ago. This is something new in Western politics, courtesy of the mass influx of adherents of a culture of violence.

Oh, and maybe Faure called him names. So what? People get called names all the time. It doesn’t justify El Guerrab’s sending Faure to intensive care.

“French Socialist politician is left fighting for his life ‘after MP in President Macron’s party hits him on the head with a motorbike helmet when he called him a dirty Arab,'” Mailonline, September 1, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):