No. of Recommendations: 19
"My first instinct was to come here and lay waste to the clown 🤡 show that runs this board. But then I thought of the lesson that Charlie Kirk taught and what them resorting to violence meant.
The outpouring over his death has been nothing short of astonishing. I had no idea he had reached so many people. And now all of them - even people who never agreed with him - are seeing who the left is and what these people are about."
—Dopey The First, Ashli Babbitt Professor of Replacement Theory at Trump University, Writer-in-Permanent-Residence at MAGA Victims' Institute
"As Trump’s narrative falters on this and so many other fronts, MAGA is moving to the violence of the far right to achieve what he cannot. In that, they are fueled by the right-wing disinformation machine that is whitewashing Kirk’s racism, sexism, and attacks on those he disagreed with and instead portraying Kirk simply as a Christian motivational speaker attacked by a rabid left wing. Trump’s vow to award Kirk the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously reinforces that image.
The refusal of Republican lawmakers to challenge MAGA’s creation of its own reality has opened the way for believers to try to put that world into place through violence. Their victory would end the rule of law on which the United States was founded and base the government on the whims of an authoritarian cabal.
It would make the United States a country in which people who stand in the way of the regime—people like Lisa Cook—would be at the mercy of hostile officials who allege they are committing crimes in order to get rid of them."
—Heather Cox Richardson