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I understand the sentiment but think you are missing the point in this specific instance. Did you read the tweets - all from major MAGA movement influencers with large followings - in the post I was quoting? Those posts are not about the killing of Kirk or Kirk's politics. They are about calling for action in response to Kirk's murder. They include these quotes:I have so little interest in this back and forth. I don't even care about Kirk's politics at this point. What happened is fucking terrible - full stop. Whether he was killed by someone on the Left or the Right or because Kirk was a celebrity of some renown and he was killed by a stalker is kind of irrelevant. I feel like we on the Left could sit the "who is worse" fight out this time. There really are no political points to score here.
"The Democrat Party is a domestic terror organization" and "When Democrats lose elections they couldn't steal, they murder the people they were unable to defeat" - those both from Sean Davis, the CEO and founder of the Federalist.
"If they won't leave us in peace, then our choice is fight or die" - from Elon Musk
"The Democrat Party must be classified as a domestic terror organization."
"The left is a national security threat" - from Laura Loomer.
Repeated calls for war, civil war, and prosecuting leftists organizations under RICO.
There is one guy who actually advocates for using the Charlie Kirk shooting as the "American Reichstag Fire." As in, not warning that it could be like the Reichstag Fire, but in advocating that Trump do what Hitler did after the Reichstag Fire. That post has 31,000 likes on Twitter.
This is not the debate about "whose political rhetoric has been more heated over the last _________ years." I'm fine with giving that a rest. This is about MAGA and its leaders immediately seizing on Kirk's death to advocate for a violent crackdown on the political opposition. To advocate for the elimination of free speech and other civil liberties. Respectfully, I am not going to shut up about that. There is only one side of the political aisle that attempts to weaponize these sorts of things to advocate for authoritarianism. And when other posters come on here and claim this is a "both sides" issue, that works to the advantage of the people who would seek to use this tragedy as a pretext for something much darker and much more terrible than the murder of a single person.