And Tyler Robinson, I don’t know exactly why he wanted to kill Charlie Kirk, but there’s a lot of information that he had a trans boyfriend, girlfriend, and he had a group of associates on social media that despised Charlie Kirk, and he thought he might be a hero. If you call Charlie Kirk or you call CEOs or you call Donald Trump fascist, Nazis, terrible people, the worst creature or the worst person in the world, to quote a former speaker of the House who said that wasn’t the worst I could do, that was just a euphemism—when you lower that bar of demonization, then there are going to be people out there with lethal propensities who feel that if they should reify your extremist language, then they will be canonized, they will be considered legendary. And when you combine those two facts, insidious though they are, that A) there are people out there who are unstable, who feel that they will be rewarded, no matter how deranged or demented that idea is, rewarded psychologically by taking the life of a controversial conservative figure, and 2) there may be people within the apparat who are responsible for the security who also feel that the person that they’re supposed to protect may be not deserving of the excellent level of protection that is usually accorded to other people, then you have a recipe for disaster, and we’ve seen it happen.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Published at: 2025-11-26 22:00:00
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