In the days since Charlie Kirk’s tragic shooting death , Republican lawmakers, influencers and President Donald Trump have been wildly and irresponsibly predicting and posting online , with great certainty, that the shooter must be a radical leftist.
They all but declared war on “the left” over the death of Kirk, a controversial right-wing activist whom they swiftly elevated to sainthood .
Predictably, the grotesque prejudgment has fallen flat, and the actual suspect in no way fits the right’s cynical political narrative.
On Sept. 12, authorities identified Kirk’s suspected killer as Tyler Robinson , a 22-year-old White guy from Utah registered as an unaffiliated voter. Shell casings recovered by authorities were engraved with references to internet memes and online gaming