Deeply disturbing rhetoric is spreading from influential MAGA figures (including the President of the United States and the owner of this website). They have no idea who the shooter is, and many of these same people mocked Democrats when they were victims of political violence in
Every President in my lifetime, including ones I deeply despised, would’ve taken this moment to try to unify the country, call for peace, lower the temperature.
But that is not, nor will it ever be, Donald Trump.
“When we decline to speak ill of the dead, it’s because we have compassion for the living. In this respect, I am sorry for Kirk’s children. I don’t know if Kirk was a good father, but if he was, that does little to mitigate the damage he did to other people’s children.”