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Many Charlie Kirk Supporters Don’t Realize What He Actually Believed
The scary but true reality of media silos in America
I’ve written three things related to the Charlie Kirk assassination so far.
The first was a condemnation of the murder and anyone cheering it — something I felt compelled to do for both moral and practical reasons, even though very few, statistically, were celebrating, and no one of prominence on the left was.
The second was a critique of those in the MAGA-verse insisting that somehow it is we on the left who need to tone down our political rhetoric, even as the right has demonized their enemies for years, none more so than their hero, Donald Trump, and, frankly, Kirk himself.
The third was a response to those who think Kirk’s love of debating on college campuses was an indication of his own openness to dialogue and an antidote to political violence, even though neither claim is valid.
Interestingly, many who only saw the first of these seemed confused by my insistence that Kirk had a long history of racist, misogynistic, and other hateful rhetoric. I hadn’t included links to such material in the first essay, although I did in the two follow-ups. As such, many people seemed to think I was unfairly smearing the dead.
