Even before Charlie Kirk was pronounced dead by President Trump last Thursday at 4:40 EST, legacy media and liberal commentators were already speculating how to pin the civil rights leader’s assassination on conservatives and MAGA supporters.
“We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting his gun off in celebration,” said MSNBC’s senior political analyst Matthew Dowd, “You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have, and then saying these awful words, and not expect awful actions to take place.” In other words, he had it coming.
Although rage from across America swiftly led to Dowd’s firing by 6 pm that night, the legacy press and liberal pols didn’t read the room.
Was the shooter perhaps conservative? The New Republic opined that “Tyler Robinson’s politics might surprise you.”
Maybe the president was to blame? “[Trump] actively fans the flames of division,” said Illinois governor, JB Pritzker. Likewise Rep. Al Green (D-Tex) preached from the House floor, “You gonna have to start at the top [with Trump].”
New York Magazine published a piece entitled “[The right wants] the shooter to be trans,” opening with the line, “More than anything, it seems, the loudest members of the right had assumed, or at least hoped, that Charlie Kirk’s shooter was a trans person.”
Never mind it appears Tyler Robinson was in a romantic relationship and living with a trans man. The media continued its spin. An ABC reporter described their text exchange over the details of Charlie’s murder as “very touching in a way.”
In 1748 David Hume wrote, “custom is the great guide of human life.”
The new custom of the left? Murder to make a political point.
Their inflamed rhetoric calls the right Nazis, fascists, and the greatest threat to our republic, yet they then proclaim to be shocked, shocked when their followers act out accordingly. Just a few recent examples:
Some Palestinian supporters rejoiced at the murder of a beautiful young Jewish couple, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC in May of this year.
Last year saw two attempts to assassinate a former and future president, which drew mockery from the left, who thought it funny.
August’s killing of two children, 8 and 11, at the Annunciation Catholic School’s church in Minneapolis seemed like an appropriate time to mock “thoughts and prayers” to many liberals on X.
After Luigi Mangione allegedly slaughtered United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December, thousands praised the accused as a “national hero” and a warrior against corporate greed.
Iryna Zarutska’s murder on a train in Charlotte, N.C. was dismissed by liberals as a random act of violence rather than a total failure of the criminal justice system that let her attacker escape justice 14 times.
In keeping to the left’s putrescence, Charlie’s murder two weeks later brought out thousands of unhinged liberals, who took to social media with sickening glee.
With horror, Americans saw for ourselves how many teachers, professors, nurses, administrators, veterinarians, and angry middle-aged white women rejoiced in Kirk’s murder.
The left’s abhorrent reaction cemented many American’s view that liberals have been infected by a destructive death cult. It surprises few, given the events of the past month, that according to a YouGov poll, very liberal people are more likely to say political violence is justified than are very conservative people. The same poll reveals what we already know: a majority of liberal Americans say it is acceptable to be happy about a public figure’s death.
Charlie himself knew it, tweeting in April that “This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end.” As usual, Charlie was right.
Like so many Americans last Wednesday, I dropped to my knees to pray for Charlie’s life. Yet God had other plans for his faithful servant. My new prayer is that Charlie’s life and death may at last prove to be the pivotal turning point in our culture, the moment when ordinary Americans said “enough.”
Morgan Murphy is military thought leader, former press secretary to the Secretary of Defense and national security advisor in the U.S. Senate.
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