Hypocritical Conservatives Use Kirk's Murder to Cynically Smear the Left

[struggle4progress]

Have they forgotten all the Trump supporters who have killed, attacked, and threatened both prominent Democrats and opponents of this president in recent years? I haven't – and I have a list of them.

Mehdi Hasan
Sep 11, 2025

... The man who targeted and killed Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their home in Minnesota in June was a Trump supporter.

The man charged with the attempted assassination of Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, in April was a Trump supporter.

The man convicted of orchestrating a series of hootings at the homes of four Democratic elected officials in New Mexico in 2022 was a Trump supporter.

The man who tried to kidnap then Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and assaulted her husband, Paul, in 2022 was a Trump supporter ...

https://zeteo.com/p/charlie-kirk-killing-political-violence

[Solly Mack]

1. Oh, but that's different. Those were single events independent of each other and driven by mental illness, not rightwing

hate.

Snort.

[Klarkashton]

2. "the radical left" is anyone that didn't vote for trump.

The trump bulshit has become so goddamn boring.
Maga had to invent a counter to the extreme cult madness that they believe in. Thus this radical left bullshit.

[johnnyfins]

3. True.

There is no "radical left" anymore. It doesnt exist.

[mitch96]

4. I think this is to be expected from the right. As Renaissance philosopher Machiavelli said "Never waste the opportunity

offered by a good crisis"
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