The eight-minute attack is so savage, it’s hard to watch even a brief clip of it. But there he is, 45-year-old Adam Bennefield, beating the hell out of his 30-year-old estranged wife, Keaira, in her home in the Buffalo suburb of Cheektowaga.

Keaira, having been pummeled by Bennefield before, had captured this particular beating on video, then posted it to her Facebook page in a desperate cry for help.

As the New York Post reports, the video apparently shows Bennefield “tackling his wife, pinning her down and savagely punching her repeatedly.” Sure enough, when Keaira showed the video to the cops, they came and arrested him. But because of deep-blue New York’s soft-on-crime laws, all he got was a handful of misdemeanor charges.

Even with a prior felony conviction for having kidnapped another ex at gunpoint, Bennafield walked out of jail under the state’s bail “reform” laws, which were enacted by the state’s Democrat-controlled legislature and upheld by its Democrat governor, Kathy Hochul.

Oh, but the judge in the case issued an order of protection against Bennefield, which comforted Keaira to such a degree that she threw on a bulletproof vest before driving her kids to school. And that’s when Bennefield “allegedly” crashed his car into hers, pulled out a shotgun, and blew her away. Right in front of her kids.

More recently, on October 24, and in another blue state, Minnesota, the cops arrived in the parking lot of Dubow Textiles in St. Cloud to find 28-year-old Nicole Hammond lying dead on the ground “with a puddle of blood around her head.”

Apparently, she’d been murdered by a work colleague, 36-year-old Michael Carpenter, who was upset that Nicole had rejected his advances. He shot her in the neck, then he drove away.

It’s a sick, sick world.

We mention these distressing events because we go to the polls on Tuesday, and because violent crime is increasingly on our minds, and because these particular crimes are an appropriate way of showing just how out of touch liberal elites like Sunny Hostin are.

Asunción Cummings “Sunny” Hostin is, according to her Wikipedia bio, an American lawyer, journalist, and co-host on ABC’s “The View,” as well as the news network’s senior legal correspondent and analyst. So she’s no dummy — which makes what she said on yesterday’s show even more mystifying.

Apparently frustrated by a recent Wall Street Journal poll showing that suburban white women have dramatically shifted their support from the pro-abortion and pro-crime Democrats to the pro-life and anti-crime Republicans, Hostin let loose with the following broadside against one of the Democrats’ most essential voting blocs:

“What’s also surprising to me is the abortion issue,” she said. “I read a poll just yesterday that white … suburban women are now going to vote Republican. It’s almost like roaches voting for Raid, right?”

As you might expect, the denunciations came quickly and roundly, and some called for Hostin to be fired. But why demand the firing of someone who just made such a generous in-kind contribution to the Republican Party? Better to keep her around as a constant reminder of how out of touch these liberal elites are with the issues that matter to everyday Americans.

It’s abortion, you emotionally incontinent idiotic women — ABORTION! That seems to be what Hostin and her fellow pathetic leftists are saying as their party’s electoral hopes begin to circle the drain.

It’s not abortion, as one poll after another shows. For most it’s inflation and the economy. Moms have a lot harder time buying groceries for their kids or putting gas in their cars in the Democrats’ economy. For many Americans, especially those suburban women, it’s also woke education, which one insightful analyst called “an iceberg of an issue” — important, but mostly below the surface.

And for others, like those who knew and loved Keaira Bennefield and Nicole Hammond and countless other innocent victims, it’s the violent crime surge — a surge that’s been brought to you by the Democrats.