Charlie Kirk’s Murder: A Rallying Point for Political Extremism

Charlie Kirk's murder has become the new rallying point for an entire culture of people who apparently crave a second American civil war. Now, before I provide examples for you, I want to be clear. Calls to violence and cheers of violence are not the sole domain of any tribe, group, political party, camp, etc. But today, the right is claiming that calls to violence, extremism, etc., and the shooting of Charlie Kirk are part of a liberal disease. It's those woke lefties who are the ones who have dehumanized. It's their violent rhetoric which caused the killing. We saw this claim just recently with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Steven Miller when he tweeted that our institutions are infected with wicked ideology threatening our children, society, civilization. Now, anyone who understands the power of language, the nuances of language, realizes that this is holy crusade messaging, and it has a purpose. It's designed to prime this country for a rightwing takeover of the culture. After all, anybody who is not part of the righteous right is an enemy. They're an enemy of religion. They're an enemy of freedom. They're an enemy of America. Those who dare to speak dissent, they are traitors. The left has been saying, "Put a bullseye on Trump, a bullseye on his supporters." >> Charlie Kirk's a casualty of war. We're we're in this country. We are. >> They are at war with us. Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us. What are we going to do about it? >> Now, the assassination of Charlie Kirk must be condemned without hesitation. Of course, this morning, an arrest was made. the suspect is in custody and whoever is responsible should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And yet Charlie Kirk's murder does not make him a martyr or a hero. It doesn't mean Charlie Kirk was a good person. And yet moments after he was fatally shot in the neck at Utah Valley University on the 10th of September, his name immediately became deified. Charlie Kirk has been a convenient poster boy. Yet another excuse for the righteous right to declare holy war upon the wicked. Anybody who disgusts them. Maybe you saw that press conference with South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace. >> Enough is enough. And now I have to deal with real safety concerns. It sounds like the shooter was a [�__�] or proranny. And just because I want to protect women that I'm worried about getting murdered. Are you [�__�] kidding me? >> Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna blamed everybody who sounded the warning about fascism in this country. She said they're the problem. She used Charlie Kirk's murder as an opportunity to rant about her pet outrages. And she says the opponents of fascism are the hate they claim to fight. President Donald Trump wasted absolutely no time. Again, with no suspect found or named at that time, he said the radical left was responsible. For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today. Interestingly, Trump ordered all American flags to be lowered to half mass. This is something he has never done. He certainly didn't do it after the murder of prominent Democrats, Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. When Trump was asked if he was going to reach out and speak with Tim Walls, the governor of Minnesota, after that terrible murder, he blew it off. He said, "Ah, it's a waste of time." It wasn't a waste of time for Donald Trump to pardon the insurrectionists of January 6th. Those perpetrators of violence were very special and they were worthy of his love. Only the treasonous left can be agents of chaos, injury, and death. And using the halls of power, Trump is speaking and behaving in increasingly militarized language about punishing the enemy. and his followers are certainly lining up alongside him or behind him for battle. Social media is loaded with memes like this one, an AI depiction of an indignant and angry redeyed Donald Trump in front of the American flag. And if this seems suspiciously Adam Sutleresque, you're not crazy. You're just paying attention. And we have Orwellian warnings all around us. From tanks in the streets to the American Gestapo grabbing people off the streets to the golden statues and imposing banners of dear leader. Guys like Matt Forny called Charlie Kirk's assassination libtard stochcastic terrorism and the American Reichag fire, referring to the fire that took place in Germany's rich tag building 4 weeks into Adolf Hitler's reign as chancellor. The always reliable Elon Musk called the left the party of murder. Again, the shooter's identity was unknown at the time, and yet he blamed it on the murderous left and said, "If they won't leave us in peace, then our choice is to fight or die." Three guesses as to who he means by they. They is also the term used by far-right political activist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer. They sent a sniper, you could be next. The left are terrorists. Loomer also managed to sneak in some if this is true implications about transter terrorists. She also said Charlie Kirk's murder is a justification to forcibly remove every Obama and Biden political appointment from the federal government. The wicked are infiltrating. They must be exised and crushed. The treasonous must be purged. We are on the cusp of civil war. And people like this say they're geared up, ready, and even eager for war. Militias, they're as heavily armed as they are activated by propaganda mills like Fox News and Newsmax. The more popular right-wing bullhorns like Chia Ray Chickic, who is best known for the libs of Tik Tok account. They say things like, "This is war in all caps." The more these people see themselves as the hammers, the more everybody else is a nail. They will blame the left for everything as they escalate and escalate and escalate. Elon Musk's own AI refuted his claim that the left is the party of murder, revealing that there's no data confirming a partisan monopoly on political assassinations in this country. The Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism lists 75% of America's political murders in the last decade to the extremist right. Yet, North Carolina politician Mark Robinson, he's not having any of that. He did a church sermon a few years ago talking about the left, the enemies of America, and how to deal with them. >> Get mad at me if you want to. Some folks need killing. It's time for somebody to say it. Folks need killing. >> Remember the plot to kidnap and execute Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer? That was carried out by rightwing extremists who claimed that she was guilty of treason against this country. They had planned to storm the Michigan Capitol building. They wanted to take hostages and kill people in the name of American patriotism. And don't let right-wing pearl clutchers lament all the lefty cruelty without showing them the logs in their own eyes. Remember back when Nancy Pelosy's husband Paul was assaulted at his home by a faright Qanoner who fractured his skull with a hammer? It was Donald Trump Jr., our own president's son suggesting a Halloween costume commemorating that day. And yes, it was none other than Charlie Kirk who recommended the attacker be released from jail. Now, nobody's saying that there are not left-wing extremists. Anybody with eyes and ears has seen examples on the political left of people who have been dancing on Charlie Kirk's corpse. With 5 and a half billion people all around the world on social media and given our charged and polarized political world, we are always we're always going to see the best and worst in people. I do think it's important to be on the right side of an issue where more than one thing can be true at the same time. And don't be a binary thinker on this. Charlie Kirk's murder is an atrocity. it should be condemned. But the events of September 10th did not make Charlie Kirk a good person. This guy invoked the Old Testament's command to stone gay people to death. He called Black Lives Matter, race hysteria, and he said Dr. Martin Luther King was an awful person. Charlie Kirk said the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a huge mistake. He opposed diversity initiatives. He called vaccine mandates medical apartheid. He said LGBT people were dangerous to children. He promoted the white supremacist conspiracy theory of the great replacement theory. He ranted about prowling blacks targeting white people for fun. He told Taylor Swift that she's a woman so she should submit to her husband. she's not in charge. He declared that if his 10-year-old daughter was raped, he would force the child to carry the rapist baby to term. He promoted Nureinberg style trials for all gender affirming doctors. He blasted liberals for celebrating a nation that is less white. And he called state church separation a fabrication of the secular humanist community. And those are just a drop in the Charlie Kirk bucket. This is the GOP's current martyr saint. I don't want political assassinations to become normalized. I don't want extremism to be normalized. I certainly don't want a ministry of truth banging Bibles and crying treason when free people actually do and say free things. And I certainly don't want a new American civil war. And yet, alarmingly, if what you and I are seeing right now is any indication, there are many who do.