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The assassination of Charlie Kirk was a ghastly attack on free speech and the open exchange of ideas that happens on American college campuses, and the House responded the way any decent body should — by condemning political violence and honoring the life of a man who dedicated himself to engaging young people in politics. Congress formally passed resolutions recognizing the horror of the September 10 shooting and offering condolences to his family, a measured response that most Americans would expect in moments of national grief.
So imagine the gall of a Democrat member of Congress turning that moment into a grievance-driven lecture about who did or didn’t vote the right way, as Rep. Jasmine Crockett did on CNN, complaining that “it hurts my heart” that only two white Democrats voted against honoring Kirk. Instead of joining the country in mourning, she made a calculated racial critique that landed like salt in an open wound, and Americans watching expected better from their elected officials.
Crockett doubled down by saying she wouldn’t honor a man whose rhetoric she found harmful to people of color, invoking the “great white replacement” trope as justification for her vote on the day Americans were supposed to be solemn. That’s not principled leadership — that’s performative politics, and doing it on the day of a memorial shows a contempt for basic decency that should outrage anyone who believes in civil discourse.
Greg Gutfeld and his panel rightly pushed back, asking what network standards have become when a grieving moment is turned into another opportunity for culture-war theatrics, and when outlets like CNN platform that rhetoric without consequence. The media’s reflex to amplify outrage instead of calling for unity only deepens the divide and fuels the very radicalism everyone claims to oppose.
Conservatives aren’t asking for hagiography — we can critique public figures and their ideas — but there’s a difference between disagreeing with someone’s politics and using a funeral to score points and re-litigate grievances. Fifty-eight House Democrats voted against the measure, and yet the louder story became who said what about race rather than the fact that a political assassin allegedly murdered a public figure for speaking his piece. That choice of focus tells you everything you need to know about today’s political class.
Meanwhile, justice must run its course: the suspect in the killing, arrested and charged, should face the full weight of the law while Americans await the facts and demand accountability. That doesn’t mean turning the tragedy into a permission slip for partisan grandstanding; it means letting the legal process work and insisting our leaders act like adults rather than cable TV performers.
Patriots across this country know how to grieve and how to stand up for the principles that make America great — free speech, due process, and the dignity of every human life. If elected officials and pundits want to keep their credibility, they should stop weaponizing tragedy, stop playing the race card for clicks, and start honoring the dead by defending the free and open society that Charlie Kirk tried to build.
