‘War Is Here’: The Far-Right Responds to Charlie Kirk Shooting With Calls for Violence
“You might be the next one,” published on X. “The left is terrorists.”
Christopher Rofo, a conservative activist who popularized the demonization of the critical theory of the race, suggested in an article on X that the “radical left” was responsible for the shooting and urged the American government “to infiltrate, to disturb, to stop and to incarcerate all those who are responsible for this chaos”.
Republican representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin also blamed the shooting on “left -wing political violence” and warned X that “the one who does not condemn this is part of the problem. Gloves are disabled ”.
On the ground of the room, after the Democrats and the Republicans observed a “moment of prayer”, led by the president of the room Mike Johnson, for Charlie Kirk and his family, the representative Lauren Boebert called for a spoken prayer. Some Democrats said no and referred to the shooting of the school in Colorado which also occurred on Wednesday. The cry broke out and republican representative Anna Paulina Luna shouted through the aisle: “You have all caused this”. According to the New York Times, a democrat replied: “Adopt some firearms laws!”
On X, Luna continued to blame the left: “Each damn you who called us fascists did it. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene also posted on Kirk’s death, calling people to “get up and finish this”.
Blake Masters, a candidate for the American congress twice, once supported by the co -founder of Palantir, Peter Thiel and approved by Trump, called for Rico surveys on non -governmental organizations following the shooting.
“Left violence is out of control, and it is not random,” said Masters on X. “Either we destroy the NGO patronage network that allows and promoted it, or it will destroy us.”
Masters quoted a post of the right -wing podcastor and the theorist of the Mike Cernovich plot, who blamed the shooting on the left. “Congress audiences now,” published on X. “Each billionaire funding for extremism of the left wing.
Chaya Raichik, who exploits the Tiktok anti-lgbtq libs Libs, simply wrote: “It’s war.”
On marginal platforms like Trump’s Own Truth Social and Donald, the enraged pro-Trump Babillard who was responsible for the planning of the attack of January 6, 2021 against the Capitol, many users echoed Jones’s comments on war.
“War is coming,” wrote a Donald user on a thread dedicated to Kirk’s shooting. “War is there,” said another.
Another Donald user wrote in the same thread: “The civil war arrives … This will give the flame return to the left for which they beg the whites so that they can play the victim and justify the white genocide.”
