Ghoulish Democrats and liberal pundits blamed Charlie Kirk and the conservative movement he championed for his own death within hours of his life being taken by a shooter at a speaking event in Utah.
“Political violence unfortunately has been ratcheting up in this country,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker told reporters Wednesday, referencing the recent assassination of Minnesota’s Democratic House speaker.
“I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country — I think the president’s rhetoric often foments it,” he went on.
The Democratic governor made no mention of the twin assassination attempts against Trump during the 2024 campaign.
MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd also placed responsibility on Kirk’s rhetoric for the shocking shooting at Utah Valley University.
“You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place,” said Dowd, who most recently ran as a Democrat for Texas lieutenant governor.
“That’s the unfortunate environment we’re in,” added Dowd, author of the 2021 book “Revelations on the River: Healing a Nation, Healing Ourselves.”
Dowd elsewhere bizarrely suggested: “We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration,” implying that lax firearms laws may have been responsible.
“We have no idea,” he also said. “We don’t know any of the full details of this.”
The popular right-wing X profile Libs of TikTok also shared a montage of leftists on the social networking site abominably celebrating Kirk’s death.
Kirk, 31, was shot in the neck from around 200 yards by an unidentified sniper.
Utah authorities later announced that a person of interest was in custody and FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that the “subject” had been arrested.
Republican Gov. Spencer Cox suggested that his state will likely seek the death penalty when the perp is apprehended and charged.
“I want to be very clear that this is a political assassination,” Cox said at a press conference Wednesday.
The father of two and conservative activist started the Turning Point USA movement in 2012 that has since dominated right-wing political organizing on college campuses nationwide.
