“I’d like to see [the nation] heal. But we’re dealing with a radical left group of lunatics, and they don’t play fair, and they never did,” President Donald Trump told NBC News.
A member of my extended family posted a reel on Instagram immediately after Charlie Kirk’s assassination in which he wrote: “He had it coming. Charlie Kirk was a monster.” This is a person who spends all day posting reels about how Trump is an evil fascist Nazi Hitler and prays that he dies soon.
An old friend of my family said this to one of my siblings moments after Kirk’s murder: “Good. Now there’s one less of them to deal with.” Does that mean he wants my sibling and me shot dead, too? That would be two less of them to deal with.
I’m supposed to want “unity” with people like this? I’d rather have them stay at least 50 yards away from my property.
And now, the Official Party of Wanton Assassination is busy making the case that there is extreme political violence “on both sides.” Immediately after the shooting, buffoonish Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, and Elizabeth Warren marched out to the microphones with convoluted messages about coming together and stopping violence on both sides.
By now, the drumbeat of bothsidesism in the aftermath of Kirk’s assassination has become a cacophony. “Bothsidesism” is what I am calling the irresistible urge for morally corrupt politicians (on both sides!) and journalists to lay half the blame for Kirk’s brutal murder at the feet of the right.
In fact, the worst Bothsiders — even worse than the sneering Democrats who can barely contain their glee that Kirk is dead, even as they scold us for not being interested in “unity” — are sniveling Republicans and so-called conservatives.
“There are monsters in your midst too,” intoned The New York Times’ David French, who persists in claiming to be conservative.
As proof, they will present their list of “right-wing violent attacks.” To give this barebones list more heft, they will go as far back as the Oklahoma City bombing, as that cretinous GOP Sen. James Lankford did on CNN. Lankford even had the gall to open his interview with Dana Bash by bringing up “white supremacy.” On Fox and Friends, Ainsley Earhardt tried to bait Trump into conceding that there are extremists on the right, too. Thank God he refused to take it.
This outrageous formulation must be crushed into dust, immediately. There is no moral equivalency. The Bothsiders are on the wrong side.
Why are Bothsiders wasting time blaming the right after a vicious murder committed by a leftist? Shouldn’t they be vociferously defending the innocent? The answer is that they’re cowards. They are too scared to call out Democrats for creating, supporting, and ignoring the evil that has taken root in their party.
Instead of courageously calling out their friends, colleagues, coworkers, and media allies, these pathetic Republican Bothsiders will spout long lists of examples of “right-wing political violence.” This allows them to avoid doing what has to be done: laying bare the left’s deep hatred of conservatives that has been allowed to fester for decade after decade.
By insisting that “both sides” are guilty of violence, they are giving the vicious left a way out. It’s a lifeline — a magical force field that immediately exonerates them. Democrats can then neatly avoid having to address the malevolent violence and hatred in so many of their voters. When it’s “both sides,” you get to escape accountability. When it’s “both sides,” the guilty get to escape a hard look in the mirror.
And just to belabor the point, here is why nearly everyone on the right is so united about political violence as a left-wing problem. First, Matt Walsh posted a short list of all the left-wing violence the right has had to endure in just the past few years:
BLM riots
Antifa
Church shootings
Trump assassination attempt [two of these!]
Pro life pregnancy center fires
Tesla vandalism
Attacks against ICE agents
Attacks against police
Attacks against federal courthouses
Allow me to add to this: multiple transgender shootings and threats by transgender activists. Plus, don’t any of these Bothsiders remember that our cities turned into a nightly warzone of fires, shootings, and Molotov cocktails from 2020-2021? It got so bad outside the White House that the president had to be moved to a secure location.
Don’t forget “Punch a Nazi” and “Punch a TERF” rhetoric either. Yes, men who identify as transgender, some of the most violent of the various Democrat shock troops, have attacked women as TERFs, or trans-exclusionary radical feminists, for years.
And we endure plenty of ancillary political violence. It was left-wing violence that forced Kyle Rittenhouse into a trial for self-defense. It was left-wing violence that forced Daniel Penny into a trial for being a hero. It was left-wing violence that wrecked countless statues, monuments, and businesses. It was left-wing violence that forced every right-wing anon on X to use a pseudonym, a Proton email, and a Tracfone to avoid doxxing by maniacs.
It’s an old cliche by now, but everyone knows you can’t wear a MAGA hat in a blue city. Everyone knows you might get assaulted, killed, or, at the very least, be screamed at, spit on, or have your car keyed. Conservatives in L.A. are careful never to put political stickers on their cars or hang Trump flags on their homes. If you do, you are risking death, violence, and swatting.
If you wore a Kamala or Hillary hat in a red city, all you would get are eye rolls. This has been the case for a decade now. Democrats have never been asked to explain this. Everyone accepts this as just part of life in blue cities, where there is zero tolerance for political differences.
When I worked at Disney, I endured daily conversations where my coworkers would discuss how they hoped Trump would die soon, how dumb and evil conservatives were, how Trump was an actual Russian spy who needed to be arrested, and how, if they ever met a Trump voter, they would punch her in the face.
And there I was, walking to Starbucks with them or eating lunch with them in the commissary. I would wonder what they would do to me if they knew I had voted for Trump. I still wonder.
This fear of coworkers, by the way, is still the norm, years later, at nearly every large corporation in the country. All my friends and family who work at these places live in abject terror — even now — that they will be exposed as right-wing.
Why is this OK? How have we just accepted this as how America has to operate? If people at companies are getting fired for being happy Kirk is dead, does that mean closet conservatives can finally be themselves at the office?
If Bothsidesism is not rooted out, then we can’t address the real root cause of this violence: insane levels of propaganda by the media, leftist influencers, and celebrities that have slandered Christians, Republicans, and white people as irredeemably evil, racist, homophobic bigots. Bothsideism is the shield they hide behind so they never have to repent.
People who think like this cannot be allowed in positions of power over us ever again. A significant chunk of the Democrat Party lusts for the death of people like Trump, his voters, me, and my family. To them, we are the obstacle blocking them from entering their leftist paradise. Feminist dishrag magazine Jezebel even hired Etsy witches to curse Charlie Kirk. Just because they don’t wear the cute green headbands and suicide vests doesn’t mean they don’t wish the same outcome on all our heads.
Therefore, if you are a Bothsider, you are on the wrong side. For our own physical safety, we have no choice but to treat you as giving aid and comfort to those who want more bloodshed.
And to the performative calls for “unity” coming from the most egregious parts of the right, like Best Supporting Senator Katie Britt, shame on you. Britt delivered an embarrassing call for “unity and peace” while Kirk’s body was still at the morgue.
Unity with people who hate us and want us dead is suicide. Right now, we need unity against the forces of darkness. Let Charlie Kirk’s spirit be a light to us in dark places, when all other lights have gone out.
