Charlie Kirk has never received a warm welcome in the pages of this magazine. It doesn’t matter now. The assassination of Kirk is a tragedy. Morally, it is unjustifiable. Politically, it is cause for serious alarm. A larger spiral into political violence would be a catastrophe for the Left.
As of the time of this writing, no one knows the shooter’s ideology or motivations. But some key points are clear enough.
No one should be killed as punishment for political expression, no matter how objectionable. In addition to our basic abhorrence of violence, we are also proponents of democracy, which depends on free speech and open inquiry. Without them, collective self-governance is impossible and tyranny becomes inevitable. Imposing silence on political opponents by brute force, whether in the form of state crackdowns on dissent or lone-wolf assassinations of leaders, undermines a principle that democratic socialists have always held dear.
It wouldn’t bother me if the libs were just doing some “we don’t condone political violence” bs (even they condone political violence everyday). Its typical lib hypocrisy and civility fetishizing.
What drives me nuts is not pretending like Kirk was a fascist pos and its good he’s dead. Its good when your enemies die. Wring your hands about how it happened. Finger wag about people celebrating. You’re libs its what you’re going to do. But calling his death a tragedy???
I fucking hate liberals. Even more when they pretend to “leftists” like these fools
Yeah they acting like Hillary wasn’t jolly with the “we came we saw” girlbossing a nation now in absolute ruins. Yeah some worthless chud died but wasn’t hillary laughing at generations of Libyan lives being ruined?