Donald Trump and his supporters’ response to the Charlie Kirk killing has been unified: vilify the left and blame them wholeheartedly for the tragic event. But as more details about the main suspect for the killing keep coming out, the likelihood of him being a staunch progressive becomes less and less likely. The suspect’s own grandmother remains unconvinced that their family has any Democrat.
Trump and his cohorts have already been beating the drums of a “war” in the aftermath of Kirk’s death. But there was always a rarely discussed element about the entire scenario, which is that a majority of the alarmists had no idea what the identity of the killer was, much less his politics. Because Kirk made a career of offending the sensibilities of progressives, the assumption was simply that his killer had to be a radical left-leaning individual.
