Black Star News Editorial
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Donald Trump and right-wing Republicans are implying, and blaming, Democrats and leftists for Wednesday’s murder of Charlie Kirk, in Utah—even though neither the murderer, nor his motive, have been established.
We now hear hypocritical blathering from Republicans, led by Trump, about political violence. To hear these folks tell it, the “radical left” is responsible for the horrific escalation of political violence currently in vogue in America.
The fact is Trumpian Republican rhetoric and intolerance has clearly inflamed the current climate of political violence. Couldn’t Charlie Kirk have been a victim of this?
Presidential Pinocchio Trump made this galling statement after the murder of Kirk: “It’s a long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree. For years, those on the radical Left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.”
Trump is very likely the most shameless charlatan politician America has ever seen. For someone, like him, to make such a statement is truly infuriating—since he is the primary political figure who is guilty of the very “demonizing” he is here pretending to denounce.
For starters, in his deceitful comments, Trump does the very “demonizing” that he says has “tragic consequences” with his language about the “radical left.” The “radical left” terminology is something he uses frequently to demonize Democrats who don’t agree with his nonsense. The idea that Trump thinks he has any credibility in speaking about the “tragic consequence of demonizing” people would be laughable, if the issue here wasn’t so deadly serious.
Again, it must be stressed that the murderer isn’t caught yet, but Trump, and right-wing talking heads, are bloviating as if we know the politics of the perpetrator. In fact, many are jumping the gun by calling this a “political assassination,” we can’t really be sure yet that even that is true. While that is the more probable scenario, isn’t it still possible the motive may be personal and not political? And even if it does turn out to be political, why can’t the murderer be yet another trigger-happy right-winger?
Let’s remember this, after Trump survived an assassination attempt, in Pennsylvania, many conservatives were spewing the same dangerous bile claiming some leftist did it. However, the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, turned out to be a registered Republican, didn’t he?
What is also annoying is that Donald Trump, more than any political figure, in decades, has encouraged his supporters to engage in violence. There are a litany of examples for us to look at. But we need only really remember one: Trump’s unconscionable incitement of the domestic terrorists in his MAGA base, telling them “We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” before MAGA overran the Congress, chanting “hang Mike Pence.”
And Trump, despite the pleas for help (coming from both Republicans and Democrats trapped inside Congress, on Jan. 6, 2021) sent no help, no National Guard troops.
And for those who falsely argue that left-wing violence is somehow comparable, or worse, than right-wing violence read this report from the National Institute of Justice and read the following article from the Center For Strategic & International Studies, which said this “far-right terrorism has significantly outpaced terrorism from other types of perpetrators, including from far-left networks.”
There is something else that needs to be said here: Charlie Kirk was a poster-boy for prejudice. Kirk’s resume of racism and bigotry is vast and long. Read this and this, for some insight into his foul mind.
But now that Kirk has been killed, we’re supposed to believe the Republican revisionist history that he was a great American. He wasn’t. Should Kirk’s murderer be severely punished when he is caught? Of course. Killing people for their views—no matter how odious—should not be tolerated in any civilized society.
However, Kirk was not an empathetic human being. And neither are those Republicans, like Trump, who are now irresponsibly inciting, and insinuating, that there should be violent retribution against leftists and Democrats for the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk.
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