The “leftists” are not mad at Ezra Klein for speaking out against the killing of Charlie Kirk. We’re mad at his specific claim that a man who spewed hate for a living was “practicing politics the right way.” Most of us abhor both his killing and everything he stood for.
Speaking only for myself, I think it's good when people across the aisle condemn the killing and offer sympathy to his family (and silly to be mad at Zohran for doing so). But there’s no reason to praise a man who never extended that basic humanity to anyone outside his own tribe
And it’s so unbelievably fucking stupid that we have to pretend, even for a minute, that the far right in America isn’t openly fantasizing about killing us every single day.
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