When Andrew Breitbart died, someone I knew responded to my Facebook post about it with a nasty celebration of it. When I responded that he was actually a good friend of mine and told that person not only where they could go straight to, but what they could do to themselves on the way, I quickly received a phone call from them apologizing. They “hadn’t realized” that I was actually friends with him, as if that made them being a sociopathic asshole cheering someone’s death simply because they wouldn’t conform to the politics the “tolerant” left, somehow better. We’ve seen this again, but even more so, with the assassination of Charlie Kirk. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
I let it slide with Andrew, the guy was young and I’d never really experienced anything like that before, so I was forgiving and wrote it off as an anomaly. Plus, I think Andrew would’ve laughed at the idea that he was still exposing “tolerant leftists” for the intolerant pieces of garbage they are, even in death.
While Andrew being in a better place was a comfort, that never overrides the sadness of losing a friend. While I can’t say I was good friends with Charlie Kirk, there was very little daylight on policies between him, me and millions upon millions of Americans who mostly want to be lef alone by the vacuous left. But the nature of “progressivism” is to not leave anyone alone – it demands obedience, not only of actions but of thought.
We refuse to obey, we refuse to conform, and they killed Charlie for it.
Yes, the shooter pulled the trigger, but every MSNBC guest to called a conservative a fascist carved their letters into the bullet casing. Every elected and media Democrat who chose to dehumanize rather than debate, looked through that scope. Every single person on the left who knew better, who saw this coming but found the inciting rhetoric politically useful and easier than making an argument for their positions steadied that killer’s hand. They all did this because they knew this was down the road they were traveling and did nothing to stop it.
There isn’t a single Democrat, before Charlie’s assassination, who stood up to their party and said, “Hey, everyone who disagrees with you isn’t a fascist Nazi monster trying to kill people.” Not one. And there isn’t a conservative commentor, columnist or pundit who doesn’t get regular threats from these same, unhinged people. Those cheering Charlie’s murder would cheer yours too – you either have that in you or you do not.
I love the people who say things like “That’s what you get when you put hate in the world.” I shudder to think what their concept of love is if, in the aftermath of a murder of a human being who did nothing but speak words they didn’t like, they think they’re spreading anything close to love. From Eric Swalwell to Jasmine Crockett, Rachel Maddow to Joe Biden, there is enough blood for every leftist’s hands. Many of them have suffered losses – the despicable Jamie Raskin had a son who killed himself, and yet he’s out there cheerleading for violence and murder…right up until they got it.
Now they’re all, “This isn’t good” and “Political violence is wrong.” Too late. They did this.
Their army of drones are still celebrating Charlie’s killing and not one of them has forcefully called them; told the radicals to go to Hell and they aren’t welcome in their party. The closest thing to criticism of those ghouls you see is a lament that publicly celebrating is “bad for the party.”
“Don’t do that, it hurts the party” is a poor excuse for decency, but when you don’t have any in you a poor excuse is the best you can muster.
People I’ve known for years have exposed themselves as monsters it never occurred to me that they could be. There is something about the progressive ideology that perverts the mind. The father of 2 isn’t’ even in the ground yet and they’re writing pieces like, “If Kirk was a victim of a pernicious culture of violence in America, it also must be acknowledged he was an author of that culture.” (Don’t worry, you can click the link – it’s to a third-party paywall bypassing website that doesn’t give them any ad money.)
If the author of that piece were to be assassinated while pumping gas, is it cool if we cheer? I don’t know him, nor do I care that he exists, so the end of that existence on Earth doesn’t matter to me. Still, I wouldn’t because I’m not a piece of shit like he is. Nancy Pelosi will die, as will Joe Biden, should we be picking our musical selections to dance on their graves to? No. If someone pulled a Luigi Mangione on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the street one day, should people celebrate that “she had it coming” because she was different from us politically? Hell no.
Yet, these very same people and the people who follow them would do it to you, me and everyone on our side in a heartbeat. If you think your friend or family member who is glad Charlie is dead wouldn’t do the same if you were killed, you haven’t been paying attention. If they insist they wouldn’t because the “know you,” that makes it even worse – it shows them to be sociopaths who have to problem with the concept of murder over politics, they just don’t want it too close to home.
The concept is the problem. Their politics are the problem.
Have you noticed how all of these garbage people aren’t quoting Charlie Kirk’s actual words or posting videos of him engaging in debates, they simply declare him to be anti-this, that or the other thing. “He’s a this kind of -phobe,” or “that kind of -ist.” They don’t quote him because they never actually listened to him, they only heard him in quick MSNBC soundbites and half-quotes out of someone else’s mouth.
The New York Times exemplified this when they had to issue the following correction to an article trying to smear him. “A correction was made on Sept. 11, 2025: An earlier version of this article described incorrectly an antisemitic statement that Charlie Kirk had made on an episode of his podcast. He was quoting a statement from a post on social media and went on to critique it. It was not his own statement.”
They didn’t bother to look because they were told Charlie was an anti-Semite, just like all of those people were told he was some kind of monster or another and didn’t bother to check for themselves. Democrats are not known for verifying things…or thinking.
Democrats never bother to look, they simply obey. They outsource responsibility for their problems and the “solution” to them. And they create problems for everyone else because they insist others obey too. If they were only hell-bent on creating their hellscape world for themselves, no one would care. But like Harvey Weinstein, they insist on trying to force their desires on everyone.
A majority of Americans said no. Charlie Kirk said no and they murdered him for it. Will he be the last person murdered by a radicalized Democrat? Of course not.
I’ve been writing for the better part of a decade about how the Democratic Party establishment was walking a fine line between keeping their followers simmering in an emotional frenzy and hoping they didn’t boil over into a full blood thirty murder frenzy. That’s where they are now. Seemingly normal people cheering murder for the “crime” of thinking how you do; for voting how you do. Do you really think they’d act differently if it were you? How could you ever trust these people again? How could you trust them around your children knowing they’ve expressed joy over Charlie’s kids growing up without him?
The left is a cancer on the country, and cancer kills. We’ve always said that when someone
shows you who they are, believe them. They’ve shown you who they are, believe them. More importantly, beat them. At the ballot box and in life.
Someday they will wake up and realize the monsters they’ve become, and they’ll try to move past it. Never let them forget. The website CharliesMurderers.com is cataloging every sick thing they’ve put out in the world about this murder, complete with their faces, names and employers when they can find it. Make them famous, and make them unemployable.
If they wake up from their rage hangover and try to pretend they didn’t do something shameful, let that website be the herpes that follows them around. The “regrets” over consequences are already starting, may it haunt them until they truly know, accept and change from the horrors they are.
Unless and until then, and maybe even after that, to hell with them.
There’s much more to say on this, and this is probably horribly rambling and disorganized because of the rawness of it all. I just don’t care right now; there will be time for clarity of thought later. In the meantime, let’s win.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter