As the Democrats fall over themselves praising Charlie Kirk, the Republicans laugh up their sleeves at the chumps on the other side of the aisle, bask in manufactured outrage at imaginary provocation by the left, and prepare to exploit Kirk’s murder to shut down democracy.
Virtue in this situation means standing sup to the Republican fascists.
is to be expected from the Republicans, but the fact that Establishment Democratic elected officials and pundits feel that they must praise a demagogic figure who preached hate and defamed anyone he didn’t like (no, this time we’re not talking about Trump), reminds us how the Democratic agenda is routinely molded to conform to Republican demands.
Oliver Willis at Daily Kos writes that “Kirk was a bigot, a misogynist, and a racist who regularly excused the very same sort of gun violence that ended his life.”
Kirk demanded that gays be stoned–how are you comfortable with that, Establishment Dems?
Stop getting sucked into the Republican con, Democrats. Get with it, and wake up to the fact that the Republicans want to exploit Kirk’s murder to overturn democracy.
Remember, red states, your economy will collapse without our blue state subsidies.
If this is your Reichstag fire, prepare for it to consume Red America.
With a new jihad against foreigners who don’t talk the way he wants them to talk about Kirk. t’s happening. Where are the Democrats? Why can’t they think on their feet? Why was Sen. Murphy equating the routinely incendiary rhetoric of Trumpists to alleged calls for violence on the left? Hello?!! We have a president who routinely posts his violent fantasies of injuring Democratic opponents.
We all saw how GW Bush exploited 9/11. Are the Democrats just going to let it happen all over again?
The Democrats must not in any way accede to the Republicans’ lionization of Kirk.
“We can condemn political violence and this hideous murder,” Christopher Cook writes at Common Dreams, “while also condemning Charlie Kirk for the rotten, vile hatred he fomented.“
Ben Meiselas reminds us that there was not a word from Trump of sympathy or concern–just using it as a pretext to attack Gov. Walz. An utterly depraved and treasonous response. His address last night was equally abhorrent. Oh, and remember how he laughed about the attack on Paul Pelosi?
The FBI has been pillaged by Trump & Patel, and the bumbling, feckless investigation that’s taken place is the result. A 22-year old gardening intern is head of domestic counter-terrorism. Elections have consequences.
Herr Trump, then stop taking leaves from his authoritarian playbook.
True to form, this president, who seemingly lives for the chance to sow division, hatred, and violence, blames “left-wing rhetoric” for Kirk’s murder. Kirk was, of course, himself as much a hate monger as Trump himself, so Trump’s reflective impulse to deflect was needed.
A decent or patriotic president would have issued a call for healing.
The Republicans have no shame. The Democrats had better not give them a pass on this.
As Mary Trump just pointed out, it is the Republicans who perpetually try to foment violence, in part by fanning the flames of paranoia that the right uses to justify its eliminationist ravings. This is exactly what the infernal Fox hosts are already trying to do, what the Utah GOP did almost immediately after Kirk was shot.
