The Violent, Intolerant, and Lying Left's Assassination of Charlie Kirk
September 20, 2025 10:41am
Today's radio show was all about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which occurred ten days ago. I discussed how it was the violent, intolerant, and lying Left that killed him. For the past quarter century, the dishonest Democrats have demonized anyone who disagrees with their destructive agenda. "Nazi!" "Fascist!" "Hitler!" To the intelligent and informed, those false accusations just roll like water off a duck's back. But there are crazy people who believe it.
Who was the most famous fascist in history? Adolf Hitler, right? Wouldn't the world have been better off if Hitler had died long before April 30, 1945? So if Donald Trump and Republicans are fascists, wouldn't it be better off if they died sooner rather than later? There are enough brainwashed, uninformed, and deranged Leftists out there that they absolutely believe that. And they absolutely believe that it is their duty to hasten the deaths of those "fascist Republicans."
So while it may have been just one person who pulled the trigger, it was the dishonest, hyperbolic, and inflammatory rhetoric of the Left that killed Kirk. The Democrats claim their non-stop labeling of Republicans as "fascists" and "threats to democracy" does not lead to violence against Republicans. But it absolutely does.
Kirk's killer was not just angry with Charlie Kirk. He did not just want to kill Charlie Kirk; he wanted to kill what Charlie Kirk stood for and what Charlie Kirk said. He wanted to end the movement that Charlie Kirk was very effectively leading. He wanted to terminate the effective communications that Charlie Kirk regularly issued, primarily on college campuses.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk was an attempt to kill MAGA and to kill the conservative movement. It was much bigger than just an attack on one man. It was an attack on the very ideals and principles that Charlie Kirk stood for. The number one thing Kirk stood for was his faith in Jesus Christ. But after that, he most stood for freedom of speech. He believed in the American ideal that every voice had a right to speak. He would let people speak who disagreed with him; he encouraged people who disagreed with him to speak; he even put them at the front of the line at his on campus events. Charlie Kirk believed that words could be used to inform, educate, persuade. He felt that, only through dialogue, could we reach an understanding among citizens who might be complete opposites in their political beliefs. Because even if that conversation did not end in agreement, if it ended in an understanding of why the other person believed as he did, then the conversation was productive and worth having.
Of course, Charlie Kirk was hoping to persuade people to believe as he did. But absent agreement, he valued the respectful exchange of ideas. And that is why his death strikes so deeply into the heart of America. Dialogue and debate was the very thing that gave birth to the United States of America. Yes, we engaged in a hot war against the British. But it was the free expression of ideas that gave birth to the concept of what is now the United States. The assassination of Charlie Kirk should have hit all Americans very deeply. But it didn't. The Radical Left celebrated it. They cheered the killer. They relished in the fact that a bullet killed a supporter of the Second Amendment. And they laughed at his grieving widow. But all decent Americans should be outraged by this senseless assassination.
Until this generation, free speech was a principle that Americans cherished. It has been only since around 2000 that the Left has sought to outlaw speech; to equate speech with violence; and to call for the imprisonment or death of people solely for the words they speak.
Leftists think hate speech should be a crime. But what is hate speech? To a Leftist, hate speech is any speech they hate. And they say that hate speech has no constitutional protections, which is, of course, complete nonsense. Because the whole point of the First Amendment is to guarantee the freedom to speak unpopular words. Happy talk needs no constitutional protection because nobody objects to it. The entire purpose of the First Amendment's free speech clause is to guarantee that people have the right to say words that others may not want to hear. Because if nobody objected to certain speech, there would be no need to guarantee the right to speak it! But the Left doesn't value free speech. It values conformity. With them, of course.
The left values power and control. And because the Left only demands power and control, they give rise to political violence in an effort to impose their standards. The Left, who claims to be so tolerant, are the most intolerant people in this country. They believe it is acceptable to silence their opposition by whatever means necessary. Including murder.
On today's radio show, I explained the type of rhetoric from top Democrats, including two Democrat Presidents, that created the toxic environment that caused the assassination of Charlie Kirk and its corresponding attack on America's most basic principles. I also exposed the dishonest mischaracterization of Charlie Kirk's words to falsely demonize him as a racist, misogynist, transphobic hater who deserved to die. That episode is now archived online as a podcast at www.TheMikeBatesShow.com/podcasts/250920