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THE FAR RIGHT IS ALREADY BLAMING THE LEFT FOR CHARLIE KIRK’S
SHOOTING
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Robert McCoy
September 10, 2025
The New Republic
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_ The attack on the conservative activist Wednesday garnered an
outpouring of rage online. Is this our Reichstag moment, similar to
what took place in Germany in 1933? _
Charlie Kirk appeared in Mankato, Minnesota on his national
“Exposing Critical Racism Tour” on Oct. 5, 2021; Minnesota
Reformer headline then was: "Right-wing celeb Charlie Kirk thinks
George Floyd is a ‘scumbag’", Minnesota Reformer
In the immediate wake of the fatal shooting
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conservative activist Charlie Kirk Wednesday at Utah Valley
University, little to nothing is known about the suspect, and
prominent Democrats
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violence.
And yet many on the far right have taken to social media to claim that
the shooting—and an increase in political violence in general—was
incited by the political left and the Democratic Party.
“The Left is the party of murder,” wrote
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social media platform, X.
“It’s a real treat to see all these Liberals condemn political
violence now,” posted
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the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. “You
called us Hitler. You called us Nazis. You called us Racists. You have
blood on your hands.”
“It’s time for the Trump administration to shut down, defund, &
prosecute every single Leftist organization,” tweeted
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activist Laura Loomer. “If Charlie Kirk dies from his injuries, his
life cannot be in vain. We must shut these lunatic leftists down. Once
and for all.”
“The left are evil murdering scum who kill people or let others kill
people,” tweeted
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provocateur Andrew Tate. “THEY MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.”
Conservative social media personality Isabella Maria DeLuca
similarly wrote
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don’t have a gun problem. We have a Democrat problem.”
James Woods, an actor and Trump supporter, posted
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Kirk with the caption: “It’s not gun violence. It’s Democrat
violence.”
Right-wing podcast host Joey Mannarino called for
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Democratic Party to be “classified as a domestic terror organization
and their members & leaders treated accordingly.”
“Democrats are the party of death and destruction,” wrote the
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“The left has declared LITERAL WAR on us. DEMOCRATS AND THEIR
VlOLENT RHETORIC OWN THIS!” wrote
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journalist Nick Sortor, sharing a video of a man being detained, who
Sortor claimed was the shooter—though it has since been reported
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suspect is not yet in custody.
_[ROBERT MCCOY has written for The New Republic, The Progressive,
Newsweek, The Daily Beast, and elsewhere.]_
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