Historian Heather Cox Richardson: I Din’t See Any Left-Wing Celebration of Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

COX RICHARDSON: “As soon as the the shooting happened, there is this outpouring insisting that he was a target of the left, insisting that people who were not MAGA were celebrating his death. I didn’t see that absolutely anywhere and I was online significantly that day. There was an outpouring from liberals and most of the left — maybe there were some people who thought that he was, you know, live by the sword, die by the sword, because he was quoted — there is a video of him talking about how if we have to have deaths to support the Second Amendment, that’s fair because we need that to support our greater rights, and, you know, people posted that. But the the radical right created this atmosphere that somehow people who weren’t MAGA were cheering on political violence. And in order to back away from that, some of the people in that space started to defend him as being an exemplar of democratic values, which, again, I feel like — if you have one thing that you should take with you after your life on earth, it’s how you presented yourself. You had all those years to do it. Why would somebody suddenly change who you were?”