In the aftermath of Kirk’s killing, there was a sense that it could be a momentous event in U.S. history, and a wake-up call for the right and the country as a whole. Not only had extreme anti-conservative rhetoric culminated in the murder of arguably the GOP’s brightest young star, but platforms like Bluesky and Reddit showcased the left immediately reveling in the gruesome shooting of an innocent man.
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Instead, as tempers cooled, Kimmel was quickly reinstated without apology, presenting himself as the real martyr for free speech. Meanwhile, social media and leftist outlets continued churning out positive reactions to the killing.
Two months after the assassination, on Tuesday, Jay Jones was elected Virginia’s AG despite leaked text messages in which he fantasized about the violent death of a Republican lawmaker and that lawmaker’s “little fascist“ children. Jones’ candidacy was a morbid litmus test as to whether Kirk’s death created any significant ramifications for Democrats, with the results being a very clear “no.”
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In this respect, Dems were right to celebrate Kirk’s death. Politically, it was a massive win for them with relatively little downside. Kirk was a nonpareil in the field of youth voter recruitment. Many have correctly called him a force of nature, a descriptor he earned by moving polling results among young citizens with hurricane-like effect.
At only 31 years old, Kirk had decades ahead of him to exert the immense weight of his genius on America’s political scales. It felt inevitable that, at some point, the 6’5” family man would emerge from behind the scenes as a candidate for high office. In a split second, however, the bullet that pierced his neck removed every advantage Kirk would have given Republicans during this century, forever shifting the course of history in Democrats’ favor.
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The brief, energetic reaction from the right was reminiscent of the response to President Trump’s shooting the year before, which also galvanized conservatives momentarily. However, Trump’s near-killing, as shocking as it was in the moment, produced only a brief pause in the left’s incessant accusatory chanting of “fascism.” Unfortunately, the epithet was redeployed shortly thereafter with fatal results, as evidenced by the “Hey fascist! Catch!“ inscription on one of the bullets fired by Kirk’s assassin.
When Kirk was killed and left-wing netizens brazenly celebrated, GOP leadership should have relentlessly demanded their Democrat counterparts disavow the jubilant responses among their voters and forced a permanent end to Nazi accusations from high-profile Democrats. The Dems should have been strongarmed into a reckoning that would have drawn a wedge between the party’s leaders and their more brazen constituents.
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The lack of fallout over Kirk’s assassination has proved once again that the left is vastly more adept at following Rahm Emmanuel’s famous advice never to let tragedies go to waste. Kirk’s death, politically speaking, was a blip compared to George Floyd’s, for instance. The date Kirk was slain is not common knowledge, unlike that of the Capitol riots, which have been forever branded in the public memory, 9-11 style, as “January 6.”
The news cycles for those events, to the benefit of Democrats, lasted months, compared to just days for Kirk’s assassination. While keeping Floyd and J6 at the top of the news hour for an interminable period, Democrats were able to steer messaging toward narratives that blamed conservatives as a whole, rather than limiting culpability to the parties directly involved.
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Instead, in Kirk’s absence, the GOP dropped the ball and allowed the event to exit the news cycle without any major consequences for Democrats. By failing to draw a line even at murder, Republicans have left an open question as to where the boundary is for the left, or whether one even exists.
* Original Article:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/11/election_results_show_the_left_getting_away_with_murder.html
