{"id":21648,"date":"2025-09-12T09:03:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=21648"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:03:50","slug":"only-conservative-deaths-deserve-empathy-in-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=21648","title":{"rendered":"Only conservative deaths deserve empathy in the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump and the GOP are going all out<\/a> to honor right-wing activist Charlie Kirk<\/a>, after he was shot and killed<\/a> throughout a Utah school occasion on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

It is a marked distinction from how the appropriate behaved in June, when Trump supporter<\/a> Vance Boelter assassinated<\/a> former Minnesota Home Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and wounded Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his spouse.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump with Charlie Kirk, who was murdered throughout a Utah school occasion on Sept. 10.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Thursday, Trump announced<\/a> that he’s going to posthumously award Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom and ordered<\/a> flags to be flown half-staff in Kirk\u2019s reminiscence. Notably, Trump did not do the same<\/a> when Hortman was killed.<\/p>\n

Trump additionally called<\/a> former GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, who was on the occasion the place Kirk was killed, to see how he was doing. After all, Trump didn’t prolong the identical courtesy to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after the assault on Hortman and Hoffman, saying<\/a> that calling him could be a “waste of time” as a result of Walz “is so whacked out.”<\/p>\n

And different Republicans are treating Kirk’s homicide considerably otherwise than they produce other shootings.<\/p>\n

Home Speaker Mike Johnson requested a prayer<\/a> on the Home flooring for Kirk\u2014however not for the victims of a school shooting<\/a> in Colorado that occurred that very same day. The prayer erupted right into a shouting match, with GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida blaming Democrats for Kirk\u2019s homicide.<\/p>\n

That is distinctly completely different from Luna’s response to the Minnesota assassination, when she provided no condolences and as an alternative blamed Walz for the murders.<\/p>\n

\u201cI advised you this was irresponsible Gov. Tim Walz. Rhetoric has penalties. It is best to have listened,\u201d she said<\/a>, referring to Walz\u2019s plan to talk at a \u201cNo Kings\u201d rally<\/a> protesting Trump’s shredding of the Structure.<\/p>\n

Former Minnesota Home Speaker Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated by a Trump supporter in June.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Luna can be circulating a letter <\/a>searching for assist from her GOP colleagues to get a statue of Kirk positioned within the U.S. Capitol. The letter baselessly blames “the Left” for the capturing, though the shooter has nonetheless not been discovered nor recognized. She stated that the statue could be “a reminder that political disagreement mustn’t ever be answered with violence.”<\/p>\n

And she or he appears to have some assist, with Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia\u2014who\u2019s notorious for his fetish for semiautomatic rifles<\/a>\u2014telling<\/a> political reporter Reese Gorman {that a} Kirk statue is sensible as a result of \u201cwe now have a statue of MLK within the Capitol, don\u2019t we?\u201d<\/p>\n

After all, evaluating Kirk\u2014who spent his life spreading hate and racism<\/a>\u2014to civil rights chief Martin Luther King Jr. is past offensive. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear whether or not Luna shall be profitable in getting her Kirk statue within the Capitol. But when she is, it\u2019s actually greater than Republicans did for the officers who have been killed or injured defending the Capitol from the hordes of Trump-supporting insurrectionists on Jan, 6, 2021. <\/p>\n

Congress passed a law<\/a> mandating {that a} plaque be positioned within the Capitol to honor these officers, however Johnson has refused to hang it up<\/a>. <\/p>\n