By Peachy Keenan, Thomas D. Klingenstein (excerpt)
Editor's Note (and we concur)
Charlie Kirk’s assassination shatters the comforting fiction that America suffers from “both sides” violence. That refrain — echoed by politicians, journalists, and even some conservatives — is not analysis but evasion, a way of protecting the Left from owning the fury it has cultivated. When a man devoted to debate is gunned down and the opposition’s response is open celebration, it is no longer possible to pretend that Right and Left are equally guilty.
In this essay, Peachy Keenan shows that “both sides” talk is the last defense of a collapsing moral order. It allows the destructive Left to indulge its bloodlust while demanding conservatives confess to sins they did not commit. Political violence in America is overwhelmingly a project of the Left, and only by naming it as such can we hope to resist it.
Our Note
The Democrats want it both ways - they want to be able to verbally bash everyone they do not like with vile rhetoric while also calling for violence and then raise the white flag WHEN ONE OF THEIR OWN ASSASSINS OR KILLS SOMEONE.
They REALLY think we are a special kind of stupid…
Charlie Kirk was loved by everyone who had even a shred of compassion in their heart. He invited debate and conversation.
He never attacked or became angry at anyone he invited to the microphone or to whom he responded in auditoriums.
He fought ideology with Biblical truth and the principles used by our Founding Fathers found in our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.
For decades, we have reacted to violence with prayers and vigils; the Left reacts with riots and burning down block after block of homes and businesses.
The time has come for us to put a stop to them, as they will not stop themselves.
They can’t govern themselves,
yet expect permission to govern the people
After enduring years of violent threats from the Left and even getting tagged on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Map,” Charlie Kirk was murdered in public last Wednesday.
The culprit was a radicalized left-wing fanatic who scrawled “anti-fascist” far-left messages on the bullet casings.
But not even 24 hours after Charlie’s assassination, social media and TV news were filled with liberals and politicians insisting the problem was “all of us.”
“We denounce the political violence on all sides,” said one.
“All forms of political violence, on both sides, Right and Left, must stop,” insisted another.
Even conservative Ainsley Earhardt joined in, telling President Trump on Fox & Friends that “we have radicals on the right as well.”
Let’s get real.
In just the last year,
the anti-capitalist Luigi Mangione brazenly shot a health insurance CEO dead on a New York sidewalk (and now functions as a folk hero to young liberals)
Left-wing, transgender Trump-hater Robert Westman strafed the pews at a children’s Catholic mass, killing 2 and maiming dozens
Liberal judges perpetually release violent predators back into the public, where they resume their killing sprees
And finally, on September 10th, a hateful leftist assassinated young Charlie Kirk, MVP of the MAGA movement and a towering icon of American openness, courage, and free speech
The Left’s politics have curdled into bloodlust.
Nevertheless, ghoulish Democrat politicians are hurrying to weigh in with their noble-sounding pleas for harmony, urging “both sides” to come together in the wake of Charlie’s murder.
Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the man who has made demonizing Donald Trump and his supporters his life’s work, had the gall to say this:
“Violence which affects so many people of different political persuasions is an affliction. We need to come together, not point fingers and blame.”
He’s begging the country not to blame his party, because he knows his party is guilty of extreme incitement to violence.
According to the Left, Charlie invited his own grisly murder. It’s no surprise …
