[justin66]

> Now, why would someone take out a prominent spokesperson for their own party?

That's a question that actually has some easy examples if you'd care to study parties like Sinn Fein or Fatah or the CCCP or... you get the point. American politics has largely been free of this sort of in-fighting (and other kinds of political violence), but a political movement's leaders or followers can be targeted because they're deemed not sufficiently radical or too radical or what have you, or they've fallen out of favor, or they've done something the membership cannot accept, or whatever.

Or, you know: maybe the person doing the "taking out" is just insane.

> They wouldn't, because that's not something that people do to other people they agree with.

Because that's just what a political party always is. A group of calm, rational people who are in total agreement on principles, goals and tactics and are entirely content with their place in the power structure. Ahem.

[muddi900]

It's not even that recent. This is the plot to Julius Ceaser

[fifilura]

Mahatma Gandhi.