Charlie Kirk was not a "conservative"

[judy]

I can't fathom why he is called a conservative in every news report and commentary.
Charlie Kirk was an extremist. He called himself a Christian while promoting everything that would have made Jesus of Nazareth recoil in horror.
Killing him is an awful crime, that will give more power to the right and the forces of hate.

[leftstreet]

1. The terms and definitions seem to be changing

Apparently he wasn't far right enough for the far right

[ImNotGod]

2. He was a russian paid fascist cult leader, one of many in this dumb and dumber country. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Nonsense. You can post no credible evidence for your claim of Russian pay. You can do better

Every time posters posit Russian domination of US politicians and commentators, they are excusing them. Radical US conservatives, everyone to the right of say Lisa Murkowski, are perfectly capable of very destructive statements and actions all on their own.

[leftstreet]

6. +1

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Given current craven state of US conservatism, I'm fine with them calling a sexist racist a "conservative"

Given the way Ailes, Gingrich, Limbaugh and tRump have warped conservatism and polarized political discourse, "conservative" has considerable overlap with "racist" and "misogynist" these days.

True conservatives have shut up or been shut up.

[mwmisses4289]

5. Well, in the way he conned his followers,

he was definetly a conservative.

[Johonny]

7. He was an disinfo-tainer.

He had a political group and sold political product, but his goal was mostly to make money off the political apparatus of the country using the rage generation algorithms of social media

[biocube]

8. Turning Point USA is funded by billionaires

None of the donors give a shit about culture war issues. But of course, you can't get more voters on college campuses preaching "billionaires should pay less taxes, because liberteh".

Basically describing the GOP since Nixon.

[Bev54]

9. Well that is the same as most of the republican politicians and their supporters and the media

still refers to them as conservatives. They should instead be called Christian Nationalists full of hatred.

[JI7]

10. In the US the conservatives are extremists

[Blue Full Moon]

11. Jesus would say I never knew you