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I’ve said in a few different places now that Kirk’s murder really rattled me. Part of the reason, at least initially, had to do with the fact he was killed doing what we’ve all done for years – answering questions about politics at public events.
But what’s honestly rattled me more has been the reaction.
I can’t say I was completely surprised by the White House response. Our government was already planning a campaign to cripple progressive organizations. They’ve already cracked down on free speech. I mean, they grabbed an international student off the street, threw her in the back of a van, and locked her in hellish conditions because she co-wrote an op-ed in the school newspaper. They raided the house of a former senior White House official after he went on TV and said things that made the President mad. And there are now at least a dozen other investigations into people on his enemies list.
They’ve got military patrolling our streets. Masked agents tearing people away from their families and saying they’ll bring them back if they’re good. They’re ignoring due process, court orders, threatening judges with impeachment, threatening to bankrupt media companies and universities. The government crackdown on free speech and civil liberties has clearly been accelerated by Kirk’s assassination, but it’s been happening for months now. They didn’t need much of a pretext because they never really bothered with subtext.
But what’s really alarming to me is the intensity of the rage they’re directing – not towards the person who murdered Kirk, but towards the political opposition, which includes millions and millions of Americans. Which includes us.
It’s not just coming from MAGA influencers and activists and supporters, either. It’s coming from the President of the United States, the Vice President, the Attorney General – the most powerful people in government. Trump says the left is evil and hateful. Stephen Miller says Democrats are a domestic extremist group. JD Vance just used the term terrorist sympathizer to describe a liberal writer who wrote a piece he didn’t like that explicitly condemned political violence.
I think we’re in a very bad place right now...

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