Exploring the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and implications for political discourse.
Truly, we live in Orwellian times. Where peaceful disagreement is “hate speech,” where free speech itself is “violence,” where premeditated murder is “resistance,” where celebrating the murder of one’s fellow citizens is “tolerance,” and where using terrorism to silence political dissent is “saving democracy” and “fighting fascism.”
If the last couple of days following the cold-blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk have told us anything, it’s that this will change absolutely nothing as far as the left is concerned. Their faux-compassion towards Kirk and his family this past week could not have felt more hollow and forced. They couldn’t wait to get through the motions so they could pivot towards pinning the murder on Republicans.
But while the elected officials at least understood the necessity of maintaining appearances, however unbelievable, their rabid base on social media proved themselves wholly unacquainted with any sense of decency. The gleeful reaction of what appear to be not snarky, angst-ridden teenagers but of grown, middle-aged adults, is absolutely sickening. At a certain point, it becomes incidental that they’re reacting like this to the specific murder of Charlie Kirk. What’s shocking is that they’re reacting like this at all. The fact that they feel its socially acceptable…indeed, even laudable…to behave like this will fill volumes of future psychology studies as to how entire generations of so-called adults ended up living their entire adult lives in such infantile, narcissistic, and self-absorbed ways.
A recent study shows that 55% of those who identify as “center-left” feel the murder of President Trump would be justified, 48% feel the murder of Elon Musk would be justified, and 40% feel that destroying a Tesla dealership would be justified. And this is the “center” left. One wonders what the numbers for the “far” left would be. Methinks we’d be getting into the 99th percentile Saddam-Hussein-election-win margins.
