Do you think Dem leadership realizes how demoralizing situations like this are for their base? [View all]

[senseandsensibility]

By remaining silent, they allow their voters to be painted as "celebrating" the murder of Charlie Kirk. And nothing could be farther from the truth. But the RW and the media ran with that narrative from the beginning while Dem leadership tried to play the "go high" game.

Now of course all Democrats should condemn the violence, send condolences to the family, etc. AND THEY DID. But that is different than allowing the media and magaworld to run wild and smear Democrats as violent, bloodthirsty radicals.

Remaining silent does not help calm the waters. Allowing this kind of narrative makes the situation more violent because a significant portion of the population is going to believe that Democrats are "cheering" this. And that just stokes more violence.