A predictable reaction to the horrible murder of Charlie Kirk among legacy media outlets has been to condemn the ugly tenor of America’s political debate and call for a timeout.
On its face, the plea sounds reasonable enough, but it rests on the false idea of both-sidesism, as if left and right are equally to blame for the frightening rise of political violence.
Count that as another Big Media lie and a repugnant effort to obscure the actual source and motivation of the assassination scourge.
There are not two sides contributing to the horror and equally responsible for it. The single truth is that we are witnessing the inevitable result of a decade of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Kirk’s death is another piece of poisoned fruit growing out of the far left’s hysteria and its fetish-like obsession about killing the president.
The cancer declaring that Trump was fair game appeared in 2015, soon after he entered the presidential sweepstakes. And it has never stopped spreading, even during the four years when he was out of office.
‘Deeply indoctrinated’
Now it has clearly metastasized to where Trump is not the only target and words are not the only weapons.
The accused killer of Kirk, Tyler Robinson, was “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology,” according to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox.
Robinson, a stellar student in high school, dropped out of college after just one semester, and seems to have gotten drunk on the social media Kool-Aid about the evils of Trump, Kirk and everyone who subscribes to any conservative principles.
The penchant for calling Trump the devil incarnate has put a target on his back and given would be assassins a license to kill him and others in his circle.
Even among otherwise intelligent and decent people, the president is often declared to be the second coming of Hitler, a fascist, an authoritarian, a despot and a power-mad dictator.
These are among the vile words Democrats and their media running dogs, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, vomit out around the clock.
Their hyper caricatures of the man and fanciful distortions of his motives have helped to turn political disagreement into a license to kill.
Recall how from the start of Trump’s first term, celebrities and so-called comedians openly fantasized about beheading him, with Madonna saying publicly that she dreamed of bombing the White House.
A cultural taboo on even joking about presidential assassination had been in place ever since the horrors of Dallas in 1963, but it was all cast aside because Trump was so far beyond he pale that he is seen as not deserving of even a minimum of respect or protection. Every day is open season on him.
Here’s the latest on the Charlie Kirk shooting in Utah
- Police identified Tyler Robinson, 22, as the alleged assassin who fatally shot Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
- Robinson is expected to be charged with aggravated murder, among other state charges, according to a probable cause affidavit released on Sept. 12.
- Law enforcement confirmed that Robinson was living with a transgender roommate, and communications between the two helping the feds catch the alleged assassin.
- Kirk, the 31-year-old Turning Point USA creator, was attending an event on his American Comeback Tour when he was fatally shot in the neck by a single shot.
- President Trump was among many who have called for the assassin to receive the death penalty.
- Kirk’s body was brought to Arizona from Utah on Air Force Two, accompanied by Vice President JD Vance, and taken to Phoenix’s Hansen Mortuary Chapel.
- Kirk’s funeral, which President Trump has promised to attend, is scheduled for Sept. 21 at State Farm Stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals.
- Kirk, a rising MAGA star, is survived by his wife and two young children.
Caught in crossfire
His greatest offense, of course, was winning the presidency in 2016, despite the best efforts of Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, Big Media and Deep State saboteurs from the CIA and FBI who tried to stop him with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
Even the weaponization of law enforcement and the later use of federal and state courts didn’t succeed in sidelining him.
A political death cult, not unlike Murder Inc., swung into action against anyone and anything associated with Trump, especially as he closed in on a second term.
Charlie Kirk is a victim of that sickening campaign. Only an evil sect could see such a kind, religious man and doting father as a worthy target for slaughter.
The celebrations and approval online and elsewhere for the soul-shattering murder are the equivalent of sewage coming to the surface.
Supposedly reputable people, including medical and education professionals, along with some government officials, are giving their assent to public butchery because of policy disagreements.
Such bile is defensible only if you believe murder is politics by another name.
It is also alarming that the alleged actions of Tyler Robinson bear a terrifying similarity to those of Thomas Matthew Crooks, who tried and nearly succeeded in killing Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., last year.
An innocent audience member, firefighter Corey Comperatore, was killed and two others were wounded before Crooks was killed by the Secret Service.
Threat to democracy
Despite clear evidence from photographs and doctors’ reports that Trump was wounded in his right ear, some in the media and others on the left tried to argue the claim was false.
One thing that wasn’t false was that President Joe Biden, after turning in a disastrous debate performance weeks earlier, had told an interviewer that “It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye. We can’t go another day, another day, without explaining what he’s doing, and we have to go after him.”
I don’t know if Biden really wanted Trump killed, but his careless use of the word “bull’s-eye” reflected how the unspoken rules against appearing to condone violence didn’t apply when it came to Trump.
After the Butler attempt, Biden apologized for using the word “bull’s-eye,” calling it a “mistake.”
There’s also a striking overlap in the Kirk slaughter to another alleged triggerman, Luigi Mangione, a leftist charged with executing health care executive Brian Thompson on a Midtown Manhattan street last December.
And it is highly unlikely that it is mere coincidence that Robinson and Mangione reportedly used their shell casings to express leftist messages of grievance toward their victims, as if to justify their heinous actions.
Authorities say Mangione wrote “deny,” “defend” and “depose” on his casings, words used in a book sharply critical of the insurance industry.
Robinson is said to have inscribed “fascist! CATCH!” followed by a series of arrows on one bullet casing found at his shooting perch in Utah.
Authorities say another declared, “If you read This, you are GAY Lmao” and on a third, he wrote “O Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Ciao, ciao!” a lyric from an antifascist World War II song.
It’s also worth noting that the Kirk murder took place during the Florida trial of Ryan Wesley Routh, the man charged with plotting to assassinate Trump on a Florida golf course a year ago.
Routh, representing himself, used part of his opening defense last week to cite political violence in other countries, and mentioned Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and, of course, Hitler.
A federal prosecutor, John Shipley, put the case in more basic terms by telling the judge and jury that Routh “wanted to make sure that the people of this country could not could not elect Donald Trump as president of the United States.”
Shipley added: “So the defendant decided to take the choice away from American voters.”
That line neatly sums up the war against Trump and the evil mindset behind the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Voters can’t be trusted, so a leftist with a gun will make the decision.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
