We got really really really lucky Trump didn't get killed in PA, because if he had I really think we would have hit a boilover point.
Since Trump had survived, the reaction was tempered. But I think the undercurrent of the emotions people were feeling then was as intense as the overt emotions they are showing now. I think a lot of what was bottled up, since we still had an election to win, is being released. But if Trump had gotten Kirked with the humiliation video and all, things would've been an order of magnitude worse. They would've had to be. There would have been no other appropriate response.
The mirroring between Butler and Orem is fascinating. Habsburg-jaw dysgenic freak donned in convervative-presenting garb snipes conservative figure on a perch during a crowded, rally-style public event. It's schizo of me to say, but it's like a playbook. I wouldn't be surprised if the same poisoned tree of NGOs and leftist organzations had its roots in both events. That's why it and its operatives must be completely deracinated, extirpated, torched, and burned.
He's just a guy with a family with different views than they have, just mount an intellectual response to it.
They
do not have an intellectual response. That's why they shot him. Outside of operating as an effective speaker and compelling conservative locus for the high school and college-aged, Kirk lived as a normal human being. He was a Christian father and a loving husband. He fit the same mould that millions of men in American history would slot right into. His life was the praxis of his values.
His values: faith, family, and country are what forward the spiritual, physical, and social life of the United States against the drag of our opposition. To combat him, to erode his values in the eyes of others, they had to take his life. The values of the left and the liberals that shield them were the death of this country, our society, and
now they're the
actual death people of like you and me.
If they'll confuse someone like Kirk for a Fascist and kill him over their delusions, there are
no pretenses left to hold onto,
no more compromises to suggest,
no more concessions worth making. There is
no reason not to act like the Fascist they think you are; even if its only to establish readiness, maintain vigilance, and respond in self-defense. Because if you're anywhere near Kirk in thought and way of life, they'll see you as one and treat you as one—we saw how they treat those at whom they point and scream "Fascist!" last week. What will happen when their fingers point at you?
So take the bullet named "Bella Ciao" aimed at your neck to heart: walk, run, lift weights, shoot guns. Network with the people around you that you can count on and be ready for things to get worse. Kirk was the first rattle of the cage of a dying animal and there will only be more.