Charlie Kirk’s murder should have been a watershed moment for the Republican Party. A conservative leader was assassinated for his beliefs, and the alleged assassin’s motive was clear: silencing Kirk’s voice because he disagreed with it. But instead of treating the murder as a wake-up call to the growing, dangerous trend of left-wing violence, too many Republicans are hiding behind generic calls for “unity.”
Consider the pattern: President Donald Trump faced two assassination attempts in 2024, Justice Brett Kavanaugh was threatened by a would-be assassin in 2022, Rep. Steve Scalise was among the GOP Congressmen targeted in 2017 by a shooter who publicly shared his support of Bernie Sanders and “hatred of conservatives,” and the Family Research Council — a pro-family research organization — was attacked in 2012.
And who could forget the violent Black Lives Matter riots in 2020 that led to the murder of Officer David Dorn and the destruction of private and public property? Or radical pro-Palestinian leftists threatening Jewish faculty, staff, and students on college campuses? Or the recent anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, where the American flag was burned in the street? Or the growing number of shootings carried out by individuals seemingly steeped in trans ideology?
Despite the long list of targeted attacks, too many Republicans respond with vague statements without calling out the evident trend.
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