The Trump administration is portraying Kirk as “a free speech advocate who abhorred political violence,” said Aaron Regunberg in The New Republic, instead of what he was: a provocateur who doxxed left-wing professors and sent buses of rioters to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. FCC head Brendan Carr did something similar in July, when he announced he would target networks for their content—saying ABC’s left-leaning The View was “now in the crosshairs of this administration.” Yet the thesis that the Left perpetrates most political violence in the U.S. is “demonstrably false,” said Thomas B. Edsall in The New York Times. The most “dangerous thing” about all this, said Jonah Goldberg in The Dispatch, is the claim that “they” on the Left are “already at war with ‘us.’” Right-wing voices, including Steve Bannon and many on Fox, have made this declaration, saying that because “they” have taken up violence, so we too must go forth to battle them.
Author: theweekonlineeditors@futurenet.com (The Week US) , The Week US
Published at: 2025-09-22 21:18:17
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