NewYou can listen to Fox News articles now!
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, he shared nearly four minutes of video on social media that warned of “an unsettling rise in political violence” that senators feared that it could lead to fear of participating in public life. He added that “every American” must condemn what happened to Kirk.
Sanders has long been a staunch opponent of Republicans and conservatives such as Kirk, but progressive senators said Thursday that the division is exactly what democracy and freedom are all about. He added that anyone who believes violence is the answer is a coward.
“A free and democratic society, which is what America should mean, depends on the basic premise that people can speak out, organize and participate in public life,” Sanders said in The American. video. “Not worrying that they might be killed, hurt or humiliated for expressing their political views. In fact, that’s what freedom is and the nature of democracy.”
I’m a Democrat, Charlie Kirk’s murder must unite all Americans
Sanders said he was worried Political Violence It can have creepy effects to prevent people from being reluctant to participate in democracy due to concerns about the potential consequences.
Charlie Kirk warned his followers to be alert to the “culture of assassination” for the remaining months before their assassination on the Utah Valley University campus. (Getty Image)
“In fact, political violence is political cowardice. This means you can’t convince people of their correctness and they have to be imposed by force,” Sanders said. “Every American, no matter what a person’s political view may be, must condemn all forms of political violence and all forms of intimidation. We must welcome and respect the dissent. That’s what our constitution means, that’s what our bill of rights means, and in fact, that’s what freedom means.”
“murder Charlie Kirk It is part of political violence uneasiness that can put public life in trouble and make people afraid to participate. ” Sanders continued.
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
After Kirk was assassinated Wednesday, the commotion broke out on social media along with posts celebrating his assassination and records of others. But lawmakers on both sides of the aisle completely condemned Kirk’s lifelong political violence.
“This is terrible,” Senator Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz. explain. “Charlie Kirk is a husband, father and son. Violence is never the answer. Sydney and I have been keeping the Kirk family in our prayers.”
“I am very upset about the threat of violence entering our political life, and I pray that we will remember that everyone, no matter how strongly we disagree with them, is a person, and the respect and protection that our fellow Americans deserve.”
Memorials commemorating Charlie Kirk are held nationwide and overseas, including Berlin. Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025. (Ilkin Eskipehlivan/Anadolu via Getty Image)
In a prophetic post on social media in April, Kirk himself Warning about “assassination culture” Spread on the left.
Click here to get the Fox News app
Kirk wrote in a post citing X on X: “Assassination culture is on the left. Forty-eight liberals say that there is at least a reason to murder Elon Musk. 55% said the same thing to Donald Trump.”
“The left is in a craze of violence. Any setback, whether it is the loss of elections or the loss of court cases, proves the reaction to the greatest violence,” he said.
Alex Miller and Elizabeth Elkind of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
