THE KEY WORD IS “CLAIM:”
Charlie Kirk was the kind of conservative that progressives claim to like. Calm, rational, substantive, open to respectful engagement with the other side. But they unremittingly demonized him anyway.
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) September 11, 2025
Charlie challenged the Left in good faith to honest debates about the soul and future of America. They shot him for it. https://t.co/CpiYySAFtR
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) September 10, 2025
A generation of nutjobs have convinced themselves that disagreeing with them, and not simply giving them whatever they want, is violence and even genocide.
And so they view physical violence against people who disagree with them as justified. https://t.co/ZAtF8VPtTe
— Sunny (@sunnyright) September 10, 2025
Remember when you said "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun?" https://t.co/6nbHuHgGiU
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 10, 2025
UPDATE: He’s not wrong:
BREAKING: Argentina President Javier Milei releases a statement:
“The left is always, at all times and places, a violent phenomenon full of hatred.”
He’s right. pic.twitter.com/1h1QCjGKie
— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) September 10, 2025
MORE:
Charlie’s assassination proves that this is no longer a debate of ideas.
The Left lost the debate, so they resorted to violence.
The Left have breached the social contract. They lie, cheat, steal, and murder, to get their way.
We are at war, whether you know it or not.
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) September 10, 2025
Today was an inflection point. The assassination of Charlie Kirk, coming on the heels of Iryna Zarutska's murder, is the perfect storm.
There is no turning back from what happens now.
The Left gloats because they don't understand what is happening.
Today will be shock.
In the… pic.twitter.com/ey75iNmLOb
— Grummz (@Grummz) September 11, 2025
Following some snide comments on X today, I feel I need to make the following observation:
If guns caused political violence, there would already be a lot of dead Communists in the streets.
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) September 11, 2025
The center holds. Barely. For now. Don’t take that for granted. Reader John Steakley writes:
The right thinks the left is stupid. The left thinks the right is evil.
I confess that it took me a while to fully understand what this statement meant. What it’s saying is that the right measures the left intellectually, but the left measures the right emotionally. Each side concludes that the other fails.
The right says that the left’s math doesn’t add up. The left says that the math is irrelevant as long as the outcome feels good.
But each side’s response to the other is starkly different. One side doesn’t resort to violence against those who can’t do math, but the other side proudly resorts to violence against those on the right cast as evil.
These two sides aren’t even speaking the same language. They aren’t pursuing the same goals. And they aren’t measuring each other or themselves by the same standards.
The right is appalled by Charlie Kirk‘s murder. But if it turns out to be a politically-motivated murder, the left will ultimately feel it as emotionally justified (despite whatever lip service they initially offer). And that feeling in the heart of the passionate left will invariably shock the cooler minds on the right.
This is where the right faces an existential decision: do they cower away from the emotional violence, resort to counter-violence, or stick together and stay the peaceful intellectual course?
I hope they choose the third option. But it is always the most difficult.
Indeed.