a stunning example of a lie travelling halfway around the world before the truth has got out of bed
"..The murder of conservative organizer Charlie Kirk, founder of the right-wing Turning Point USA organization, and the overheated response it generated in MAGA world, may come to be seen as its own turning point on the path to autocratic rule in the United States.
Officials in Utah on Friday announced the apprehension of 22-year-old Tyler Robinson as the suspected murderer, but already in the less than 48 hours since the abhorrent assassination of a top Trump confidant, chilling echoes can be heard that remind us of how Adolph Hitler exploited a fire at the German Parliament, the Reichstag, in 1933 to remove his final impediments to unleashing a horrific dictatorship in the Third Reich.
Kirk had become a key figure in the Trump movement. His mobilizing on college campuses which was credited as spiking the youth vote for Trump, proclivity at demonizing Democrats and the left, mainstreaming racism, and outspoken role as a 2020 election denier, led Trump to
call him “one of 3 or 4 people most responsible for my (2024) election.” Trump and multiple Trump followers quickly branded the murder as a violent attack on the entire Trump movement,
“all of us,” promising
threats of war.
Fox News talking head
Jesse Waters declared, “we’re going to avenge Charlie (Kiirk’s) death.”
As usual, Trump led the recriminations and threat of retaliation. “For years, the radical left has compared wonderful Americans like Charlie Kirk to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals,” said Trump in a
widely broadcast video. “This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today and it must stop right now. My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity, and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it.”
In singling out attacks by the so-called “radical left” in his video, Trump seeks to create a counter-narrative of who is provoking political violence, for example, ignoring the recent murder of Democrat Melissa Hortman, the former state house speaker and her husband, Mark, by a reported Trump supporter, an act Utah Sen. Mike Lee
blamed on “Marxists.”
Trump and others on the right mocked the attempted murder of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul. Trump routinely urged supporters to
assault protesters at 2016 campaign rallies. And, most notably, Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, including those who assaulted Capitol police officers and some of whom have since been
re-arrested and charged with subsequent crimes.
Further, some of the most notorious mass killings in recent years were committed by shooters with far-right and white supremacist leanings, including at an El Paso Walmart, Buffalo grocery store, Charleston Black church, and Pittsburgh synagogue.
Blaming the left and Democrats in general for the Kirk shooting, and the broader array of what Fox personality Sean Hannity
calls “ten nonstop years of rage and hatred and a vile language,” and a left whose “ideology is pure evil,” as GOP Rep. Rob Onder
insisted on the House floor Thursday, signals the specter of a broader, dangerous response.
All Hitler needed in 1933 was an excuse, and it didn't take him long to find one. The fire this time may be the assassination of a key figure in the MAGA movement.
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