The Right is making Charlie Kirk into a martyr. On my way to work this morning I saw 3 different businesses with their flags at half mast. Since I have been at work I have had 2 people tell me to my face you guys did this and you picked the wrong man to kill. This is getting scary.
It's not scary. It's the logical progression of what has been occurring in this country since 2009, when we had the audacity to elect a black man twice. Everything the Republican party has done since then has been leading to moments like this, January 6th, the kidnapping at Nancy Pelosi's house, etc. Political rhetoric has become toxic in this country because one side absolutely could not deal with the fact that they lost two elections to a black man. It made them lose their minds, and it led to the election of Donald Trump, who has served as a flamethrower for the right, publicly saying all the things they've wanted to say for years. It was only a matter of time before we started seeing violence erupt from this incendiary talk, on both sides of the aisle.
Make no mistake about it, Charlie Kirk is dead because when you preach hate, that hate sometimes gets turned around against you. Somewhere out there I assume is a mentally ill , most likely left-wing idealogue who believed they were doing the world a favor by removing Charlie. Unfortunately, they didn't. All they did was create a vacuum that will be filled by an angrier, crazier version of Charlie Kirk, and most likely this person has also inspired right-wing lunatics (of which the pool is a lot deeper) to respond in kind.
It's going to be ugly for quite some time, but make no mistake who started this uptick in the "They are evil, we are righteous" talk. If anyone gets in your face about it claiming our side is responsible, then just show them a clip of Donald Trump's speech yesterday and tell them, "Here's your culprit, asshole."
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