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"This afternoon [Trump] told reporters that in response to Kirk’s murder 'we have to beat the hell' out of the 'radical left lunatics.'
Needless to say this libelous and criminal threat is something a president should never say but which comes easily to President Trump and is treated as mostly expected by the elite political class."
~ Josh Marshall
"I was struck yesterday by the sight of Republican policymakers holding Kirk up as a champion of free speech while at the same time using his death to call for state crackdowns on the speech of others."
~ Andrew Egger
#CharlieKirk#Trump #guns #violence
/12
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/kirk-killing-suspect-in-custody-cdc-shooting-officer-david-rose
"We should trust ourselves and those we address to hold two thoughts at the same time: That we must forcefully condemn political violence but also acknowledge that it festers and thrives in a deeply unhealthy political culture that Kirk himself helped create."
~ Thomas Zimmer
#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
/13
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-right-wants-a-reichstag-fire
"The message should not be that political violence is bad and requires a strong response because it targeted a good guy who was 'practicing politics the right way' (which Kirk definitely was not)."
"Too much of the media coverage and reaction I am seeing to the shooting of right-wing provocateur, Charlie Kirk, is completely absurd and very, very dangerous.
At a time when truth and context are absolutely vital, I am seeing too damn little of both today."
~ D. Earl Stephens
"Kirk used his politics as a weapon, and aimed to hurt innocent people. My God, his final words were cloaked in the racist hate he spent his life peddling.
I am not celebrating his death, but I am lamenting the demise of truth in this country."
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