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After the conservative activists Charlie Kirk The murder in Utah last week has been met with a public celebration of left and counter-trend figures across the country, prompting widespread public condemnation.
Fox News Digital spoke to several experts this week, analyzing whether the trend is still on the edge, or whether it exists Celebrating the death of political opponents Injuries are becoming mainstream.
Paul Sracic, a former political professor at Youngstown State University and currently a part-time researcher at the Hudson Institute, a U.S.-based domestic policy-centric Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., said the answer depends on one’s definition of “edge.”
Charlie Kirk debated with students at Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England on May 19, 2025. (Nordin Catic/Getty image)
Slasic said recent surveys show that one in five self-identified liberals agree that political violence is sometimes justified.
“Presumably, most of these very liberal and liberal voters support Democrats. This should scare Democratic leaders, but it is arguably an inevitable result for Democrats, either adopting or at best failing to oppose their own forms of violence, so if they make people feel “insecured” about political parameters, they feel “insecured”.
He said that regardless of their individual potential, Democratic leaders also knew that regardless of the political environment, these more exciting voters must attract mid-term polls so that the party can win a part of the federal government.
Rep. Andy Barr, r-ky.he also ran for the Senate. Mitch McConnell The Senate seats to be opened have raised another point of view – the focus is on the increasing trend of political violence from the left to the right.
He cites the representative. Steve ScaliseR-la. Almost assassinated at the Virginia dance hall, two attempts to the president Donald Trump’s Life and Kirk’s murder.
“No doubt whether you stand with President Trump, support Israel or believe in free market capitalism, you are targeted,” Barr said.
“I will work with the Trump administration and provide all the resources necessary to prevent these domestic terrorism from happening.”
Julian Epstein, a democratic strategist and former chief of Congress, believes a number of factors are driving the response to Kirk’s killing.
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“Celebrating Kirk’s death on the far left, both online and offline, is too common and there is not enough condemnation,” he said. “The Democratic elites are arguing about the minimization of assassination in both sides of the secondary ideology – as far as ABC journalists are concerned, moral relativism – is too common.”
Epstein warned that the indiscriminate use of historical terms such as “fascism” is a radical political basis and argued that the left failed to stick to Martin Luther King Jr.
“Failure not only happens Kirk assassinated, And so in the past few years, in the scourge of anti-Semitic violence on university campuses and elsewhere. ”
Link Lauren, a former consultant to Robert F. Kennedy and host of the podcast Spot On, said the trend is no longer on the edge, but is becoming more mainstream:
“They called us Nazis, fascists and threats to democracy. After George Floyd, the left burned cities and businesses,” Lauren said.
“Since Charlie’s assassination, conservatives have gathered in churches and prayed for peace. [That] Tell you everything you need to know. ”
At Manhattan College, legal policy researcher Tall Fordgan added that political violence is “spacious.”
“There is an increasing mainstream view among progressives, and as the influence of democratic socialism grows, Democrats have gained a stance within the Democratic Party, which is justified if terrorism eliminates the power differences,” he said. “So you’ll see famous Democrats underestimate the atrocities of October 7, 2023, citing Israel as the stronger party in this battle.”
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Fortgang said New York Parliament. Zohran Mamdani and American Democratic Socialists since Hamas terrorist attack.
“And, with the rise of Mamdani’s star, if violence is “powerless “attacking a powerful person”, it makes sense.
Fortgang also pointed to comments from Democrats such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren Massachusetts case after murder – outside of his ongoing court hearing, the main suspect was considered a celebrity.
Warren initially said that violence was “never an answer,” warning: “People can only be pushed so far…if you try to push people, they lose confidence in the government’s ability to make changes.” She later Clarified her commentssaid: “Violence is never the answer. Period. I should know more clearly that murder will never be justified.”
Fortgang says it’s suspicious Luigi Mangione “Being hit on capitalism” and suggests that Kirk’s suspicious murderer, Taylor Robinson, might have been inspired by a desire to take revenge.
“Hamas competed with settlers when he burned his family alive. Systemic thinking is humanizing, but basically becoming the orthodox American leftist.”
“Even if it is not entirely responsible for the rise of political violence or widespread celebrations, it helps to maintain it. That’s what the Democrats need to face.”
