I Won't Be Lectured About Political Violence by the Modern Republican Party
Mike Nellis
I’ve done my best this past week to contain the rage I’m feeling. I’m angry about Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the impact it’s having on our country. It was an attack on all Americans—whether you agreed with him or not.
But what’s made me even angrier is watching the MAGA machine hijack this tragedy.
If Kirk’s mission was truly about free speech, what we’ve seen from the right since his death is the opposite. It’s become about doxxing, silencing, and vilifying anyone who dares to dissent—even people simply acknowledging that he was divisive. Let’s be real: Kirk himself would have admitted as much. Yet people claiming to champion free expression now declare any uncomfortable truth as “disrespectful” or “dangerous.”
That’s the biggest takeaway from the past week of MAGA behavior: they’re for free speech until it’s aimed at them. Then it’s “make this person famous,” post their workplace, swarm their mentions, send threats. This isn’t grieving. This isn’t honoring anyone. It’s weaponizing a murder to stir up more hate, fear, and violence.
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