Why blaming ‘the left’ is easier than deterring violence after Charlie Kirk’s murder

President Donald Trump is rejecting suggestions that right-wing extremism is a concern Well the complication is on the left Trump reported reporters outside Air Force One The obstacle is on the left if you look at the issue it s not on the right like particular people like to say on the right The concern we have is on the left When you look at the agitators you look at the scum that speaks so badly of our country the American flag burnings all over the place that s the left that s not the right CHARLIE KIRK'S ALLEGED ASSASSIN 'TAKEN OVER' BY LEFTIST IDEOLOGY WHILE FBI PROBES WIDER PLOT BONGINOOne reporter demanded whether he planned to investigate They re already under inquiry They re already under major study A lot of the people that you would traditionally say are on the left No matter how the question is framed Trump sticks to his partisan analysis as he did on Fox Friends Radicals on the left are the complication and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy They want men in women s sports they want transgender for everyone open borders The contrast with Utah s Republican governor Spencer Cox could not be starker Cox who made the Sunday show rounds says the country has to find an off-ramp from the current surge in political violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk s murder There has to be a way to lower the temperature he noted Democrats from Barack Obama on down to their credit are denouncing the assassination as unacceptable even if they disagreed with specific or all of what Kirk stood for What s striking is the ripple effect on everyone else Newsday had to apologize for an abominable cartoon The sketch established an empty chair with blood behind it and the repeated phrase Prove Me Wrong a frequent Kirk saying with an arrow pointing to Turning Point USA FROM GRIEF TO INCREASE TURNING POINT USA BECOMES A RALLYING FORCE FOR GEN Z IN BATTLEGROUND ARIZONAThe Long Island paper called the cartoon insensitive and offensive We deeply regret this mistake and sincerely apologize to the family of Charlie Kirk and to all saying it s been deleted online But how does something that bad get approved Fox News citing sources revealed the White House and Pam Bondi have lost confidence in Kash Patel The FBI director stumbled in announcing that a suspect was in custody only to see that person circulated as the wrong man Patel says his tweet that the subject of the shooting was in custody could have been worded a little better There were warning signs when Missouri s attorney general was brought in with the same rank as Patel s deputy Dan Bongino and Fox says he made clear he would not have left that job to serve as Patel s number two Kari Lake who runs the U S Agency for Global Media stated at a vigil for Kirk that the college that the accused shooter attended for one semester had brainwashed him I am making a plea to mothers declared Lake who twice failed in bids for office in Arizona Do not send your children into these indoctrination camps Lake added that her daughter didn t go to college instead working for Kirk Four years ago the suspect went to Utah State University as a pre-engineering major And he was sufficiently uh brainwashed in that he decided to kill Kirk last week UTAH PROSECUTORS PREPARE FORESEEN DEATH PENALTY DEVELOPMENT AGAINST CHARLIE KIRK SUSPECT TYLER JAMES ROBINSONLook finger-pointing politics has been going on for a very long time When President Clinton blamed Rush Limbaugh for the Oklahoma City bombing I wrote the front-page story When the New York Times blamed Sarah Palin for the wounding of Gabby Giffords and the death of six others because of a political map with crosshairs that the killer never saw a top editor advised me I was wrong but later admitted I d been right And when the guy who badly wounded Steve Scalise at a Republican baseball practice was revealed to be a regular Rachel Maddow watcher liberals jumped on that one So it is with the -year-old Kirk murder suspect and the pointless search for motive Is it relevant that the alleged shooter is living with a transgender man who is becoming a woman Sure But anyone who would plot to kill Charlie Kirk for political reasons is by definition insane as are all these nutjob school shooters It s also true by the way that the constant attacks on the president the survivor of two assassination attempts as Hitler and worse foster an atmosphere in which another attack is more likely But wait there s a final guilt-by-association maneuver going on We see it when Elon Musk this instant tweets the left is the party of murder We see it when Spencer Cox calls social media a cancer The social media point may well be true but we can t put that genie back in the lamp By blaming the left the X owner and others are depicting everyone who has liberal viewpoints as culpable even if they never heard of Charlie Kirk even if they are shocked and appalled by his murder And that s just well crazy