In the never-ending quest to dodge accountability, the left is ever trying to put the blame for their own actions on someone else. You've seen it a million times before, and you saw it when Charlie Kirk was murdered, too.
Murder is never the fault of the murderer or the culture that created said murderer. It's always the fault of the opposition. I can remember when Terry Moran blamed the Nashville shooting, which took the lives of three children and three adults, on Tennessee's unwillingness to fully embrace the transgender agenda.
As my colleague, Rusty Weiss, recently reported, Megyn Kelly took part in a Turning Point USA event at Virginia Tech, where she was confronted by a leftist student who placed the blame for Charlie's murder on President Donald Trump and his "rhetoric." Pointing to Trump's "rhetoric" has been a favorite go-to for leftists of every ilk, be it a student on a college campus or media personalities whenever they get in front of a camera.
As Kelly pointed out, the idea that this is somehow linked to anything Trump is saying is ridiculous.
"‘Contributing to the atmosphere?’ Let’s just make clear, [Kirk's assassin] was motivated by leftist ideology,” she told the student. "We know it from the bullet casings, we know it from the Utah governor, we know it from his own mother."
There is a tidal wave of articles on this very website that discuss the left's overt hatred for everything that isn't them. One is released at least daily, and it comes from all over, be it message boards online, X, or "The View." Talking heads on MSNBC and CNN echoed elected Democrat officials calling the right dangerous and despotic at every turn. Hollywood created movies making Republicans, Christians, or even just white people in general seem like the epitome of evil.
I don't have to tell you any of this. You don't even have to be heavily political to see it. The culture was so heavily weighted against traditional American values that the ire radiating off the left was so thick you could walk on it.
The violence was, and is, entirely their fault. They cultivated that violent culture, and they should be made to own it.
And how do I know it's entirely their fault? How do I know Trump's "rhetoric" isn't to blame?
Because Trump's primary audience isn't the left, it's the right. If Trump's rhetoric were truly as potent as the left says it is, then why isn't the right rioting? Why aren't they burning down cities? Why aren't they assaulting and murdering innocent people in the streets? Why aren't businesses having to board up their windows and chain their doors when they hear a right-leaning or Christian march is happening in their location?
Why is it that during the memorial of a man they martyred, the right gathered together — not just in a stadium in Arizona — but all over America, and proceeded to forgive and pray for those who harmed them, and worshipped Jesus Christ in song and prayer?
Trump even spoke at that event in Arizona, and yet his "rhetoric" didn't send people into the streets to burn, loot, and do violence.
If Trump's rhetoric is so infectious to the mind that it activates its most violent tendencies, then how come no one on the right seems affected? Why are there no assassinations attempted on people from our side? Why no mass shootings?
You can only conclude that the violence in our society is ideologically based on leftist values and what they see as permissible. In some cases, the left considers violence a virtue, as evidenced by the idea that doing violence against "Nazis" and "fascists" is something they often promote. Since everything to their right is "fascist," then it stands to warrant that they consider violence to be a norm, and by the way, everything is to their right.
So it's not Trump. It's not the right. It's not anything in the American culture or traditional values. It's not capitalism. It's definitely not Christ-centered living.
It's them. They're the violent ones.
