The past few weeks have been very dispiriting. Charlie Kirk was shot and killed simply for speaking out about ideological and political issues. I didn’t know Kirk and never watched a single second of his innumerable podcasts and speeches – I am a little too old and too conservative to be among his targeted audience – but only a totally crazed individual, like the (alleged) assassin, would want a decent person dead for developing his organization and for having political conversations with college students.
But even worse, the response of the left-wing Democrat elites and base has been to double down on their hysterical, violent, and unrepentant attitudes. Instead of showing some remorse for the murder of young man by one of their own, who was ginned up to violence by their propaganda, and vowing to, in good faith, lower the political temperature in this country, they have spent far more energy and anger complaining about the decision of a private company – spurred on, no doubt, by a legitimate and legal FCC action – to fire a has-been, money losing comedian who almost certainly deliberately lied about Kirk’s (alleged) assassin’s background to cater to the arguments of the left. And who was apparently planning to double down on his incitement.
I have now written countless columns exposing, analyzing, and decrying left-wing hysteria, radicalism, and the promotion of violence in American politics. Democrats have raised the tensions in this country to Defcon 1 with their constant ferocious assaults on President Trump, his allies, and the Republican Party in general for being Nazis, Hitler, Fascists, devils, authoritarians, etc.
And let’s not forget that Donald Trump only became the Republican nominee in 2016 because of the earlier vicious Democrat assaults on other Republicans. (See Bush, McCain, and Romney.)