Yesterday, media figure and political provocateur Charlie Kirk was shot by a sniper, joining Coach Red Pill and UHC CEO Brian Thompson in the Canon of martyrs beatified by the New Right. Kirk was the head of Turning Point USA, an organization heavily-funded and supported by Christian Nationalists and other unsavory organizations. Kirk's last foray into the news cycle was his teaming up with JD Vance and Donald Trump Jr in the attempt to foment a hostile takeover of Greenland. As of this writing, Kirk's killer has not been caught, although Kash Patel's bungling FBI (twice) grabbed the wrong guy while the real suspect slipped away.
Most Americans probably had never heard of Charlie Kirk, but the New Right is never one to let a good crisis go to waste. Aided and abetted by the Corporate Media, Kirk's shooting has reached near George Floyd levels of hype. Even though a suspect or a motive hasn't been named, high-level personalities and pundits are making sure that the enemy within is blamed.
Within minutes, Utah Governor Spencer Cox, another Neocon who switched from denouncing Trump on Jan 6 to believing today that the Orange Man has a Divine Mandate, told us confidently that the shooting was "politically motivated." Elon Musk, echoing some of Stephen Miller's remarks last week, chimed in, blaming the nebulous 'Left' for the crime.
The White House, more ominously, vowed not only to find the shooter but promised a crackdown on those who (defined by themselves) encourage such actions. The White House specifically targeted again the 'Left.' Social Media and the punditocracy are calling for even more drastic measures, as we could imagine.
Now, in June of this year, two Democrat Legislators in Minnesota were targeted and gunned down by a New Right fanatic the story disappeared and President Trump himself refused to confer with Governor Tim Walz over it. Trump himself was targeted last year by a Stand-With-Ukraine crackpot---neither of which has been met with the same sort of fanfare surrounding the death of Charlie Kirk. Kirk himself was certainly no stranger to advocating political violence (when employed against the right people, of course).
Likewise, Kirk is being lionized by the so-called Christian Right, in spite of some of his rather unchristian positions.
The current US Government is neither Conservative nor Christian. They are Reactionary Liberals, hence it is not surprising that they would adopt the same tactics that the Left (and others) once used in making a fake martyr out of a truly disgusting human being. We need to be on our guard against any other tactics they may borrow from the Left in exploiting this incident for power and control.
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