For all of us who love our country, it was a memorable moment. On the evening of September 11, 2001, hours of the fear of an airlineer who attacked the building by terrorists, a few hours after the capital escapes, the Congress members gathered at the capital’s steps.
Senator representatives, standing next to the Democrats next to the Republican, the leader next to the backbencher. Then, after an opening prayer and silence, They broke into an impromptu chorus of the “God Bless America”. It was going on, inspiring and the right way to show the world, despite our differences, when we are suffering, we stand together as Americans. We support each other. We are united.
Political activist Charlie Kirk’s insensitive murder could have been another 9/11 moment. Even though his death is especially tragic as he was a young man with a wife and two young daughters who were killed only to use the freedom of his speech, Kirk’s murder is just the latest in a wave of political violence.
It has been leveled against politicians on the left. Rape. Gabby Gifords (D-Eries.) Was shot and injured in 2011, Paul Pelosi was attacked in his house in 2022. There was a abduction conspiracy against Michigan village. Greatchen Whitmer In 2020. An alleged arson targeted Pennsylvania’s residence The village. Josh Shapiro In April, and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered in her house.
It has also been leveled against the right, when a person set fire to the House Republican at the baseball ground, raped in nearly 2017. Killed Steve Scalice (R-La.). And of course in 2024, two murders were attempted against Donald Trump, when Kirk was shot and killed.
This moment demanded another show of national unity. This can be another time to stand together and say with Republican and Democrats: enough. The cycle of political violence should be stopped. There is no justification for allowing political differences to drown at the point of violence. And we all must agree to reduce rhetoric to avoid giving anyone a little signal to anyone.
But, sadly, this is not happening. While the vast majority of Republican and Democratic leaders condemned Kirk’s murder, many high-profile conservative voices confiscated his murder, as an excuse to spread even more political poison.
“Left -wing political violence should stop now,” Tweeted.Before a suspect was known or arrested. “The leftist murder party,” Elon Musk posted on XBefore the identity of the killer is known again. The one -time leader of the proud boys forgive by Enric Tario, Trump, Posted on X: “I am labeling half -country killers because what are they really.” Fox News Host Jessie Waters insisted: “They are in war with us. Whether we want to accept it or not, they are in war with us.”
And after Kirk’s murder compared to Trump, there has been no more biased or vitriolic in his comments. Without any evidence, he immediately convicted Kirk’s assassination on “radical left lump lunetics”. That evening at a video -to -video address from the Oval office, he convicted liberals for a wave of violence, Charging that “the radical left” What “is directly responsible for terrorism that we are seeing in our country today.”
Trump also announced that his administration had already started investigating any organization, which believes that they encourage violence – but, in particular, only against organizations on the left. According to Trump, there is no problem with violence on rights. “The right to the right,” he said to “Fox and Friends”, “he is radical because he does not want to see crime.”
At one point, Trump said that he hoped that people would respond to the murder of Kirk with non-violence, but it seems hollow to a person who regularly calls his political opponents “evil” and “vormin”, which last week calls people “vicious” and “frightening”, which we closes to beat “hell”. Officer.
Indeed, Trump Charlie Charlie considers Kirk’s murder as an excuse to increase the use of the powers of the President to go after his political enemies. While the Law Enforcement Officer was still looking for the alleged killer of Cancer, Trump demanded that the Liberal philanthropist George Soros be “closed” for the financing of violence.
Divided so deeply with this country, it is the responsibility of the President to calm the water. Instead, Trump continues the flames.
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