Charlie Kirk: The Horst Wessel of the MAGA movement

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : In fact, partly out of cowardice and partly out of self-justification, they vastly overestimate the actual power of Trump and the relationship of political forces within the United States.
38% : In a similar process of political canonization, Charlie Kirk is being transformed into the Horst Wessel of the fascistic MAGA movement.
34% : The response of Trump & Co. was to lie about the killer's motives, claiming that he was left-wing and to step up the stream of fascist invective that would inspire copycats.
33% : On Wednesday, Trump denounced those who had "compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis" and vowed that his administration would "find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity."
32% : Accepting the lies of Trump and his minions -- that Kirk died in the service of democracy and free speech -- the Democrats and media are not challenging the right-wing narrative of events.
31% : Trump makes these threats under conditions in which no information is yet available about the identity of the shooter or his motive.
22% : The denunciations of "political violence" by Trump and the Republicans reek of hypocrisy.
22% : Just one week ago, moreover, Trump murdered 11 people in a shipping boat off the coast of Venezuela and threatened Chicago, one of the country's largest cities, with "war."
20% : Trump and the fascist right have seized on Kirk's death to threaten mass repression and violence against those who oppose them.

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