Assassination Denial and Celebration on the Left

Two prominent reactions to Charlie Kirk's murder on the American political left have been:

[1] Denial that the assassin was a leftist, motivated by leftist political commitments + a systematic effort to convince people that he was on the right.

[2] Celebration of his murder + mocking of mourners at vigils, destruction of memorial displays, etc.

   The evidence of these things is easy to find--it's shockingly common--and I've got to get moving this morning, so I won't link much now. But I probably won't be able to resist doing so later. There are more links that you can click on at e.g. Instapundit*, r/conservative, and other such places.

   Apparently there's a woman named Heather Cox Richardson (a historian to boot, if I got that right) who has the world's most-read substack. She is, apparently, still pushing the view--for which there was never a single scrap of evidence--that the murderer was on the right. In fact, there's a poll floating around to the effect that more people think he was on the right than on the left.

   You've got to give it to the left--they're good at this. They get their story out to their minions et al. fast--and it's a lot harder to refute a story than it is to get people to believe it in the first place. Of course they've got the MSM, NPR, Bluesky, all of Reddit other than r/conservative and a handful of other subs, universities, etc. But, unfair advantage or not--they're good at it.

   I'd have thought my opinion of the left couldn't fall any lower.

   I was wrong.

[Look, it obviously goes without saying that the fattest part of the curve on the left is near the center, and that part of the curve does not accept any of this. The closer you get to the center, the more e.g. Democrats are perfectly sane. There are still undoubtedly a lot of people there who just hear the radicals' message first, don't spend much time thinking about it, have a low opinion of the right, and end up believing the radicals' falsehoods out of ignorance or laziness--or because it coheres with their overall view. And the vast majority of these folks are not celebrating. But, again, this should go without saying. In fact, I see the radical left as almost a bigger problem for people on the center-left than they are for us--the radicals are routinely misleading them into bad positions. Yes, the relative centrists bear some blame for their own predicament--but not all of it. It also goes without saying that the same phenomena manifest themselves on the right--just not, currently, as prominently.]

[Ok. here's just one link concerning this Richardson Substack person.]

*Never look at the Instapundit comments unless you want to get almost as depressed about the right as you already are about the left. r/conservative is much, much more reasonable, of course.