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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharlie Kirk was not a "conservative"
I can't fathom why he is called a conservative in every news report and commentary.
Charlie Kirk was an extremist. He called himself a Christian while promoting everything that would have made Jesus of Nazareth recoil in horror.
Killing him is an awful crime, that will give more power to the right and the forces of hate.

leftstreet
(37,157 posts)Apparently he wasn't far right enough for the far right
ImNotGod
(1,067 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(58,199 posts)Every time posters posit Russian domination of US politicians and commentators, they are excusing them. Radical US conservatives, everyone to the right of say Lisa Murkowski, are perfectly capable of very destructive statements and actions all on their own.
leftstreet
(37,157 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(58,199 posts)Given the way Ailes, Gingrich, Limbaugh and tRump have warped conservatism and polarized political discourse, "conservative" has considerable overlap with "racist" and "misogynist" these days.
True conservatives have shut up or been shut up.
mwmisses4289
(2,135 posts)he was definetly a conservative.
Johonny
(24,582 posts)He had a political group and sold political product, but his goal was mostly to make money off the political apparatus of the country using the rage generation algorithms of social media
biocube
(136 posts)None of the donors give a shit about culture war issues. But of course, you can't get more voters on college campuses preaching "billionaires should pay less taxes, because liberteh".
Basically describing the GOP since Nixon.
Bev54
(12,847 posts)still refers to them as conservatives. They should instead be called Christian Nationalists full of hatred.