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The Christian martyr Charlie Kirk: A new Martin Luther King

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The assassination of a leading defender of Christianity, Charlie Kirk, represents the culmination of decades of hostile Marxist indoctrination in the West. Charlie Kirk has become a significant martyr, a new Martin Luther King Jr.

The radical Left has long taught Americans that the classical Western values of tolerance and free speech is wrong, that whoever disagrees with the Marxist-socialist-communist ideology must be removed, lied about in the media, belittled, discriminated against, anything to force society into one single authoritarian groupthink, so well-known from countries where atheist socialists are in control. Under the banner of “solidarity and empathy with minorities,” a socialist tyranny is implemented. The National Socialist (NAZI) system in Germany during World War II is a good example of how a socialist state completely shuts down freedom of speech. Today’s Europe is not far behind.

It should surprise no one. The founder of the radical Left, Karl Marx (1818-1883), invented socialism-communism as ideologies that precisely aimed at destroying the very structure of traditional civil society, belief in God, the family, capitalism and private ownership, the nation state and a constitution under God.

The Marxist goal was always about breaking up social order to cause a bloody revolution. They openly spoke about the need to stop political opponents at any cost. Vladimir I. Lenin, the founder of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), detested the capitalist code of honor, stating the need to ruthlessly curb free speech: “We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth. … We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion and scorn towards those who disagree with us.”

Post-war heroes of the Left, such as Theodore W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Jacques Derrida were characterized by a complete distrust in historical Western principles and a remarkably strong contempt for Christianity. Which enemy sent them into the heartland of the West to tear down its pillars? Under the disguise of “empathy, love and solidarity,” they implemented a new set of racist, misanthropic ethics – the antithesis of Christian morality – idealizing hedonism, nihilism, a misogynist feminism, the breaking up of the family, lawlessness, borderlessness, sowing discord and hatred between ethnic groups.

Conservative Charlie Kirk, whose assassination was celebrated by so many radicals, lived his days in this quagmire of Marxist authoritarianism and hatred of Western values, in the remarkably occult and heathen America.

He was demonized, lied about, called the foulest of names, his message willfully twisted in the classical left-wing tactic so well-known throughout the elite-owned, mainstream media. He was detested for his Christian views: That we are one nation under God, with the ideal of a traditional family nucleus consisting of a faithful man and a woman in marriage and their children; the protection of the unborn child and its right to live; the belief in the church as a spiritual center fostering moral standards and a healthy social context; a nation state with border protecting the citizens, as defined in the U.S. Constitution. Also, a system that allowed differences of opinion to thrive; creating healthy debates in order to find the best solution to problems in society; supporting the ideal of a healthy capitalist economic system, where men should work and own the fruit of their own labor; a system where state power was to be decentralized so that the needs of the people would be served. The ideal was the separation of powers between the legislative, the executive and the judicial branches of government in order to stop the abuse of power.

Yet, especially since the 1960s, the intolerant Marxist ideology has been implemented precisely through the university systems and in the media, the arenas where conservative Charlie Kirk was operating, brutally shutting down the respect for the Judeo-Christian values that formed the basis for the Western civilization success story. The concept of free speech for conservatives has been relentlessly denied, young radicals indoctrinated to hate the classical virtues: Do not lie, do not steal, do not be greedy and selfish, stay faithful to your wife, earn your own money by working hard, be humble, forgive, respect your parents, help those in need, love others like God loved us.

Charlie Kirk spoke fearlessly up against the toxic fluidity that is poisoning the minds of young Americans. For this he was martyred. Yet, his legacy marks the beginning of a new era in which millions rise up to follow in his footsteps, joining him in his faith in God and willingness to serve at any cost, causing landslides of changes that will fundamentally reshape America.

Kirk’s assassination and the Left’s insidious ‘fascist’ slur

Despite data showing the willingness of the “very liberal” to support violence to achieve political ends, Democrats like Rep. Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., deny that calling political opponents “fascists” or “Nazis” or “Hitler” contributes to the “overall problem.”

Ryan said: “I actually don’t think it does. I think people are trying to grapple with a really unprecedented time in our country where we’re seeing maybe history not fully repeat, but history rhyme at some of the darkest times in our world’s history and struggling in good faith to try to put some intellectual thought into that and find the right language. … I think not being honored by this president, that’s hard to figure out how to, how to put word to that in a way that is constructive.”

In short, how would one describe a “fascist” without calling him and, by extension, his supporters, “fascist”? Quite the dilemma. At this point, it’s probably useless to point out how Adolf Hitler, unlike President Donald Trump, murdered his political enemies; controlled the media and the arts through censorship, intimidation and propaganda; arrested and detained adversaries indefinitely and without trial; murdered 6 million Jews and 5 million others; and ignited a world war that resulted in an estimated 50 million civilians dead worldwide.

Virtually every policy Trump enacts or attempts to enact ends up in court. He appeals unfavorable district court decisions, many of which end up at the Supreme Court, where Trump usually wins. Still, Trump’s critics call him a “tyrant” and a “dictator.”

Examine the judicial system under Hitler’s Germany. The Holocaust Encyclopedia writes: “… Like most areas of public life after the Nazi rise to power in 1933, the German system of justice underwent ‘coordination’ (alignment with Nazi goals). All professional associations involved with the administration of justice were merged into the National Socialist League of German Jurists.”

Comparing Trump, a democratically elected leader, to Hitler is, was and always will be insanely and profoundly ignorant. It is insidious.

Former Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “People don’t have the intention of saying something that will lead to something dangerous (so) we cannot take responsibility for the minds that are out there and how they hear it.”

How did Charlie Kirk’s suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, “hear it”?

After Robinson shot Kirk, he texted his roommate/partner, a man transitioning to be a woman. Robinson told his partner to find and read a message Robinson left before the assassination. It read: “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.”

Partner: “You weren’t the one who did it right????”

Robinson: “I am, I’m sorry.”

When asked why, Robinson responded: “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”

On the ammunition found with his rifle were several phrases including, “Hey, fascist! Catch!”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., insists her party comes to the debate with clean hands because, well, you know, Trump. Warren said: “Oh, please. Right. Why don’t you start with the president of the United States? Right? And every ugly meme he has posted and every ugly word. …”

Let’s start with the president. It was former President Joe Biden who said, “It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the – I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.”

Vice President and then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris, when asked whether she considered Trump “a fascist,” responded: “Yes, I do. Yes, I do. … He’s saying to his generals, in essence, why can’t you be more like Hitler’s generals? Come on!”

A YouGov poll taken after Kirk’s assassination found that 25% of the self-described “very liberal” believe political violence is sometimes acceptable to achieve political goals. This is eight times the number of the self-described “very conservative” who feel likewise. Last year, a report affiliated with Rutgers University called “Assassination Culture” wrote: “Over half of those who self-identified as left of center (56%) reported that if someone murdered Donald Trump, they would at least be somewhat justified. … This includes 14.1% who said this murder would be ‘Completely Justified.'”

In 2008, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, accused of merely uttering empty words, said: “Don’t tell me words don’t matter. ‘I have a dream’ – just words? ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’ – just words?”

The assassination of Charlie Kirk and the violent movements we must denounce

Sept. 10, my friend Charlie Kirk was murdered in cold blood in front of a crowd of thousands at Utah Valley University. He was assassinated while debating with students – something Charlie did frequently, and with aplomb – by a radicalized leftist with a trans boyfriend. That assassin decided to kill Charlie because of Charlie’s belief that men cannot become women, and vice versa; as he allegedly wrote in a text message to that trans boyfriend, “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out. If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence.”

I was in Los Angeles when Charlie was shot. My first reaction was shock; my second, horror; and my third, the realization that the shooting was almost certainly the result of a radicalized leftist, probably associated with transgender ideology. If we are to be honest with ourselves, we all have such reactions upon learning of acts of evil: We jump to the most likely conclusion about the source of that evil. If a synagogue is targeted in a mass shooting, the suspect will almost certainly be either a radical Muslim or a white supremacist; if a church is targeted, a radical Muslim or a trans activist; if a CEO is shot, a Marxist radical of some sort. There is a reason for such suppositions: Not all ideologies are equally likely to produce violence at the margins.

Ideologies that breed violence share three specific elements.

First, they share a conspiratorial view of the universe in which a shadowy cabal of powerful people are responsible for all of your failures and shortcomings, and in which their arguments are not in fact arguments, but instead, a la Michel Foucault, a facade for power.

Second, such ideologies share a belief that you or your group are being targeted for destruction by that shadowy cabal.

Finally, such ideologies hold that violence is justifiable self-defense.

All the ideologies listed above fit this model. Trans ideology argues that trans people are victims of a conspiracy – a conspiracy to deny their identity; that such denial is responsible for all their life problems and amounts to a form of “erasure” or “genocide”; and that the proper response to such “hate” is violence. Radical Marxism argues that poor people are victims of a conspiracy of the wealthy, who exploit them; arguments on behalf of free markets are merely false consciousness promoted by the powerful; violence is therefore an appropriate response (“FREE LUIGI!”). White supremacy argues that whites are being targeted by people of color, Jews, and other minorities and fellow travelers; their very existence is a threat, and force is thus a justifiable response. Radical Islam argues that the failures of Islamic civilization are due to imperialism and colonialism; that the success of the West is inherently violent; and that violence is the proper response.

When politicians say, therefore, that they are against “political violence” but then move to justify violence by massaging these ideologies, their words are useless. They are a prettification of reality, an attempt to gloss over radical evils gnawing at the intestines of a functional society. Even worse, politicians who continue to foment such ideologies provide a permission structure for violence, excusing it and even valorizing it.

The only way to truly fight political violence is to denounce the ideologies that breed it. Anything less means that more radicals take their ideologies to the logical extreme – and the result is blood in the streets, innocents dead and an ever-widening cycle of violence.

Needed: Federal death penalty against Kirk’s assassin

The assassination of Charlie Kirk cries out for the death penalty, which is rarely imposed by Utah courts. This murder was premeditated and executed with vengeance, against an innocent victim merely for exercising his constitutional right of freedom of speech.

This crime struck at the heart of our republic and has terrorized Americans from expressing their views in public. Like the assassination of President William McKinley by an anarchist on Sept. 6, 1901, for which the assassin received full due process and then was executed on Oct. 29, retribution by seeking the death penalty against Kirk’s assassin is needed.

Before the suspected Kirk assassin was arrested, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox pointed out that Utah still has the death penalty, but Utah law makes it nearly impossible to apply. Utah has executed only one person (an American Indian) in the last 15 years, and there are only four criminals on Utah’s death row, each of whom has been supported there at taxpayer expense for more than 29 years.

A murderer cannot be punished by the death penalty in Utah state courts unless there is an aggravating factor as narrowly defined by Utah law, such as killing a police officer or shooting in a way that creates a “grave risk” to bystanders in a crowd. Kirk’s assassin allegedly fired one shot from a high-precision rifle at Kirk while he was seated on stage, so it is unclear if Utah’s death penalty even applies to this crime.

In addition, Utah has a pro-transgender culture, contrary to every other Republican state. Codifying a pro-transgender administrative rule promulgated in 2020, Utah in 2023 became the only Republican state with a law that prevents parents from seeking professional counseling to straighten out gender dysphoria in their children. In 2022, Gov. Cox also vetoed legislation protecting girls’ sports against transgender athletes.

The suspect, Tyler Robinson, was living with his transgender partner, whom Gov. Cox praised as being “incredibly cooperative” with investigators. Robinson reportedly had a romantic relationship with his transgender roommate.

Bullet casings found with the murder weapon contained markings demonstrating that this assassination was carefully planned and carried out with vengeance. These inscriptions included a merciless “CATCH,” along with positive references from online communities, including the sexually deviant furry subculture.

Afterward Robinson reportedly sent electronic messages to his transgender lover about the murder. Robinson also exchanged messages among more than 20 people in the online platform Discord soon after the assassination, apparently without anyone rebuking him or telling him to turn himself in to authorities.

The FBI reports that Robinson’s DNA has been linked to the crime scene, where a high-powered hunting rifle with a 500-yard shooting range was found nearby. It is alleged that Robinson shot Kirk from a rooftop merely 150 yards away.

Tyler Robinson has so far been charged only in state court with three crimes for assassinating Charlie Kirk: aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm and obstruction of justice. In state court, Robinson will benefit from a system that is more lenient than federal court, and less likely to impose the death penalty.

As President Trump vows a full federal investigation, Attorney General Pam Bondi needs to file federal charges that carry the death penalty. The FBI should not be relegated merely to a supporting role in Utah, which is notorious for its Trump-haters and for favoring residents against outsiders.

Tyler Robinson admittedly hated Charlie Kirk, who frequently professed his Christian faith and was outspoken against the transgender ideology, as President Trump has been. Robinson’s love interest is transgender, and Kirk’s close association with Trump made Kirk a proxy of Trump and a target for Trump-haters, of whom there are many in Utah.

The federal death penalty is triggered by hate crime murders when motivated by animus toward one’s perceived race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability. If it is a capital offense to murder a transgender person, then it should be a capital offense for a transgender’s lover to murder a prominent Christian critic of the transgender movement.

The federal hate crime statute – and the federal death penalty – should be applied to prosecute this assassination of an outspoken Christian. The Trump administration should ensure that Americans are fully informed about what encouragement the assassin may have received from well-funded Leftist organizations before and after this crime.

On Tuesday FBI Director Kash Patel was subjected to rants by Senate Democrats and liberal Republicans in a hearing on Capitol Hill, but little of it had to do with this shocking assassination that has terrorized millions of Americans. Instead, Democrats were more concerned about preventing unproductive federal workers from being fired.

Kirk’s death is a watershed moment for our country, and freedom of speech depends on how thoroughly this heinous crime is prosecuted.

Democrats and violence? That’s the norm

The morning before Charlie Kirk’s murder, I told my sisters that the big myth was that the Democrats used to be safe Americans.

You know, patriotic, God-fearing, moral, anti-crime, proponents of free speech, totally in with the Constitution.

Forget that. Liberals hate those points to the extreme, cheering Kirk’s killing as revenge for brilliantly lauding conservative values.

If lefties couldn’t beat Courageous Kirk in debate, which was impossible at campuses throughout the country and even in England, then gun him down, which someone on their side did in Utah.

The mistake conservatives make is yearning for Democrats of yore, when they supposedly had their civil feet on the ground with Presidents Truman and Kennedy.

But they never did. Let’s check the issues:

Slavery. The slave owners were Democrats.

Secession. Democrats voted for it.

The Civil War. Democrats caused and lost it.

Terror. Democrats started the KKK after Republicans freed the slaves.

Income tax. The Dems’ President Woodrow Wilson ignited it, pilfering from Americans at the expense of tariffs.

Suffering. The Democrats’ FDR started America down the road of massive government spending while dragging out the Great Depression.

Traitors. FDR and Truman had plenty in their administrations, including Harry Dexter White and Alger Hiss, passing secrets to the Soviets.

Slaughter. Kennedy sparked the Vietnam War, the second straight dead-end conflict after Korea that a Republican had to finish.

Ruination. President Lyndon Johnson signed Sen. Ted Kennedy’s immigrant bill of 1965 that opened the floodgates to immigrants and changed the face of America.

Lawfare. The Dems had no chance in 1972 versus President Richard Nixon, who bulldozed them with a 49-state landslide, so what does lefty do? Drag him through congressional hearings until he resigned. It foretold the game plan that liberals tried against Donald Trump. Only this time “DJT” stood not only for the president, but also for Don’t Just Try.

Waste. President Jimmy Carter couldn’t keep from swelling the bureaucracy, starting the Energy and Education departments, which accomplish nothing.

Kowtow. President Barack Obama loved the Iranians so much, he flew pallets of billions their way. Just in case their terror account ran dry.

Destroy. Joe Biden, the con in chief after the 2020 rigged election, opened the southern border to millions of illegals. Each one will vote Democrat, expediting the fall of America.

The only ones in the way of that invasion are President Trump and his loyalists. Like Charlie Kirk.

Democrats knew it. So they tried to kill Trump and did so with Kirk.

Expressing my inner Trump, Charlie Kirk was One Big Beautiful Force of Nature.

This is truly a sad time for America. But not the end. Charlie Kirk called his college march “The American Comeback Tour.”

No question we’re coming back.

Other brilliant Americans, like Kirk’s Joan of Arc wife, Erika, will stand tall for this titanic country.

And tell it like it is: We better keep beating the left before it pulls another 1917, when the Bolsheviks turned Russia into a killing field.

As Elon Musk posted on his X: “The Left is the party of murder.”

Another top talent, TV and podcast wiz Jesse Kelly, said on X: “Do not for one second think this is a rare thing. Democrats are violent. They love violence. This is the norm.”

It is. My few lefty friends didn’t send one message of condolence for Kirk.

In reality, liberals want MAGA to disappear. If it takes death, so be it.

As treacherous as the Democrats have been for two centuries, they’re just as bad now. Watch your back.

‘Obstruction ends today’: Senate confirms 48 Trump nominees in a single vote

Kimberly Guilfoyle speaks at the Republican National Convention on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020.

The Senate confirmed four dozen of President Donald Trump’s nominees in a single vote on Thursday following Senate Republicans unilaterally changing the upper chamber’s rules last week.

Senators voted 51 to 47 along party lines to confirm 48 of the president’s picks who will serve in positions across the federal government and represent the U.S. abroad. Republican leaders have pledged to continue clearing the backlog of civilian nominees waiting for floor consideration in the coming weeks by voting on nominees in groups.

“Let me be clear. Democrats’ obstruction ends today,” Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso said on the upper chamber’s floor. “Over 100 more nominees will be ready for confirmation by the end of this week.”

Each of the 48 nominees passed out of committee with bipartisan support, allowing the bloc to secure simultaneous confirmation with the rules change. Many of the nominees who won confirmation will serve in lower-level positions in the Trump administration, including under or assistant secretary positions across the federal government.

The bloc also includes six of Trump’s ambassador nominees, including former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who will serve as the U.S. ambassador to Greece, and former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Callista Gingrich, who will now represent the United States in Switzerland.

Guilfoyle is the former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, and the ex-wife of Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Mrs. Gingrich is the wife of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

Republicans argued the rules change was necessary to break Democrats’ unprecedented obstruction of the confirmation process.

“For almost eight months now, Democrats have dragged out the confirmation of every one of President Trump’s nominees,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on the Senate floor on Thursday. “By restoring Senate precedent on confirmations, we have helped ensure that the Senate is able to fulfill all of its responsibilities.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has justified stalling the confirmation process by arguing that “historically bad nominees deserved historic levels of scrutiny.”

Trump, in his second term, is the only president in roughly 100 years to not have a single nominee confirmed via voice vote or unanimous consent.

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‘I am now a registered Republican’: Social media confirms tsunami of voters fleeing Democrat Party

Things haven’t been going well for Democrats in recent months. President Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in a landslide and he was given, by voters, GOP majorities in both the U.S. House and Senate.

Those “leading” the Democrat Party are aging seriously.

New blood is tainted with extremism, like California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s radicalism that doesn’t even earn the appreciation of all Democrats, much less a cross-section of all voters.

Trump Derangement Syndrome is at the pandemic level.

Fundraising is off, and the issues all have lined up against them.

Under Trump inflation is declining, jobs are working toward a growth curve, America is respected around the world again, borders are being secured, criminal illegal aliens are being deported, the transgenderism wackiness is being turned back and much more.

So just when they didn’t need it, a leftist allegedly assassinates conservative icon Charlie Kirk – and a long list of Democrats laugh about it. Or ridicule him online. Or say he deserved it. Or worse.

All of which has left Democrats, sometimes lifelong party faithful, finished.

I’m registering as a Republican. After leaving the Democrats, I thought I’d stay independent and make choices politically from there BUT after today and the violent narrative the left keeps pushing “blame the victim not the criminal” I’ve decided I’ve had enough. #CharlieKirk

— Bosie K. Krazo (@BosieKrazo) September 11, 2025

If you thought killing him would stop him from registering more republicans, think again. pic.twitter.com/AYHX0SWgdR

— The Misfit Patriot (@misfitpatriot_) September 15, 2025

my entire life i voted democrat

donated the max to obama, got a photo and had him talk about my toe-shoes on the stump

pulled my kid out of preschool in 2016 after trump won because their teacher was maga

voted kamala last year

today i registered republican. pic.twitter.com/WLxPnX1wdu

— Siqi Chen (@blader) September 11, 2025

I have left the sidelines.

I am now a registered Republican. pic.twitter.com/5Y7A2ykoBx

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) September 18, 2025

I registered as a Republican last week.

I want it noted that people are fleeing the Democratic party. And we are well past caring about being smeared as “alt-right.” It’s dumb.

Thanks @Chadwick_Moore for including me in your article about why we are fleeing @TheDemocrats pic.twitter.com/CPBEJZBKIe

— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) September 16, 2025

Massive uptick in searches for “How to Register Republican” in New Jersey last week…

We’ll find out if it led to action when new data drops October 1st…

The Election 2025 voter registration deadline is October 14th: https://t.co/ac3wBsAONN pic.twitter.com/XrCdqAyuAY

— Matt Rooney (@MattRooneyNJ) September 18, 2025

A young lady has had enough, she’s standing with Charlie and is now a registered Republican.@EarlyVoteAction @ScottPresler @Eduke15 @Ginagina822 pic.twitter.com/Ie5ZyUoCJK

— TruthMedix (@redpillkidoctor) September 17, 2025

Asked a guy if he was registered to vote!

He answered “WE ARE CHARLIE KIRK!”

Found out he was still registered Democrat & helped get him switched to Republican!

-1 & +2 @TPAction_ pic.twitter.com/iXiA6ztdXy

— Noah Formica (@NFormicaGOP) September 16, 2025

In honor of Charlie, today I —

Registered as a Republican (I was unaffiliated).

Ordered an American Flag for my yard. Had been meaning to anyway. Today was the day.

I worked hard to stay in the light amidst so much darkness.

I went to work. And kept going. pic.twitter.com/GxTpErIa7j

— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) September 11, 2025

At PJMedia was a report that the assassination was “celebrated” by the left, triggering what is appearing to be a tsunami.

Across states like Florida and New Mexico, “Voter registration offices are reporting unprecedented surges in people switching from Democrat to Republican. These are Americans who watched the left’s reaction to Kirk’s murder and decided they’d seen enough,” the report said.

Sheilfer Zepeda, avocado farmer and software entrepreneur, said, “I’m switching parties to protest. I understand that the right also has certain character flaws, but it doesn’t culminate in sympathy for political violence. Attempted assassinations of presidential candidates, public executions of healthcare CEOs and political influencers seems to be in line with what leftists want.”

Pennsylvania restaurant manager Christopher Elton said, “There’s more peace on the right compared to the left. And I’m almost embarrassed for voting left in my life.”

The report explained, “The rate of Republican registrations in Florida tripled in the days immediately following Kirk’s slaying.”

Florida’s GOP chief Evan Power told the New York Post, “Since Charlie was killed we’ve been seeing about 600 new Republican voters a day. We [usually] average about 200 a day, so 600 is a much bigger number—it’s a big deal.”

In Pennsylvania, there were 2,148 new GOP registrations the week ending Sept 13, up from 1,018 the week before.

The New York Post noted, “Freshly emancipated former Dems told The Post they were horrified by the assassination of the 31-year-old podcaster last week — who they thought of as kind and reasonable — and further disgusted by the ghoulish celebration of his killing by many lefties.”

Kirk’s organization, TPUSA, also saw a flood of requests for new chapters after his assassination, and if all are established, would make his organization at least 15 times the size it was previously, the Post said.

“Turning Point was flooded with over 32,000 inquiries to start new chapters in the 48 hours following Kirk’s murder, where the group had roughly 2,100 chapters before Kirk’s death,” the Post said.

It was the attitude of extremists like Rep. Ilhan Omar, R-Minn., that was triggering the freefall in Democrat voters.

She said, “There are a lot of people who are talking about [Kirk] just wanting to have a civil debate … These people are full of s—t and it’s important for us to call them out.”

A woman the Post identified only as Jeanie, from North Carolina, switched her registration to Republican, explaining, “I had to unfriend, like, 15 people on different platforms because they said Charlie Kirk had it coming to him. And I just thought, my God, evil is walking amongst us.”

 

Off the rails

Bugs of a feather

‘Not a bad word’: Rashida Tlaib goes into hysterical screaming rant after calling GOP fascists

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.

Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib got into an intense shouting match with Republican Florida Rep. Byron Donalds during a Thursday hearing after appearing to call the GOP fascists.

Democrats’ rhetoric about Republicans has come under scrutiny since Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination on Sept. 10. During a House Oversight Committee hearing on crime in Washington, D.C., Tlaib used the term “fascist” and said that Republicans should not be offended by it, leading Donalds to snap back.

WATCH:

“We can’t be passive right now. So nobody over there should take anything we say so personally as if we’re attacking them. No, we’re attacking a process. We’re not attacking people here. And I think it’s really important we need to stand up against this fascist takeover,” Tlaib said. “That’s not a bad word. It’s a fact. And here in D.C., and across the country, it is so incredibly important, Mr. Chair, that this committee does not allow rhetoric that defames or paints Washington D.C., in a way that you all haven’t really truly seen.”

Donalds asked Tlaib to yield for him to ask a question but she refused and continued ranting.

“Chairman, I think it’s insane that the gentlelady doesn’t have an argument, but she’s going to refer to me and some of my colleagues like we were from the Third Reich. This is insane. It’s insane. It’s insane. It’s insane. Do I look like a member of the Third Reich to you, Ms. Tlaib?” Donalds asked. “Is that what I look like to you? Is that what you think? Is that what you think? Is that what you think? I think it’s radical and I think it’s insane! And I don’t respect everything that you say. But to say something like that to myself and a lot of my colleagues is way out of line. It’s way out of line. It’s way out of line!”

Tlaib screamed hysterically as Donalds spoke.

“Free DC! Free DC! And make sure you vote with your own voting card,” she said after Donalds stopped talking. “Don’t be giving it to somebody else.”

President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard and took other measures to clamp down on crime in the nation’s capital in August, with violent crimes plunging.

Former Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine on Monday’s “The Morning Meeting” called on his party to admit it made a mistake by labeling Trump a “fascist” following the assassination of Kirk.

“[T]he party should not call Trump Hitler, should not say he’s a fascist. One, it’s bad politics. Two, it’s just not true. Right? It is simply not the case,” Turrentine said. “And I think that whenever a bad thing happens, parties need to call out in real time, ‘This is not acceptable.’ And I wish that one of our 2028-ers would come out and be more explicit.”

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