September 12, 2025
After Charlie Kirk’s murder, the Democrats revel in two minutes of hate and attack the Second Amendment
By Andrea Widburg
We knew that the left’s response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination would be ugly, but it was uglier than anyone could have predicted and infinitely more stupid, too. It was uglier because hordes of people celebrated the death of a young father because they disagreed with his ideas, and it was stupid because of how they approached the gun control arguments that always arise when someone, anyone, gets shot.
First, the ugliness: A leftist acquaintance who was horrified by Charlie’s death nevertheless objected to the essay I wrote immediately after Charlie’s death. He believed I too laboriously cherry-picked social media posts about ugly Democrat responses to make a point. He contended that, if someone were to assassinate a popular leftist speaker, nasty conservatives would also appear on social media.
I explained that you’d always find a fringe in any group that would have vile responses when someone political is murdered. However, I said, the sheer volume of vile responses is a purely leftist phenomenon.
What we witnessed in real time was Orwell’s famed two minutes of hate, voluntarily exercised against a murder victim and lasting a lot longer than two minutes.
At the top, there was the group response from elected Democrats:
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