Charlie Kirk’s murder is a reason for a coordinated attack on Trump’s enemies.
President Donald Trump goes to the South Law of the White House after arriving in the Maritime Infantry in Washington, Colombia District, Sunday, September 14, 2025.
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The phrase “national healing” always strives more than real in the United States, a nation whose history of ethnic genocide, racist whirlwinds and murders give lies with any pious words of the committee. But the best US politicians were able to use their platform at least to offer the way to a more peaceful future. In 1865, giving his second entrance address, Abraham Lincoln created a template To deploy the presidential eloquence before the quarrel when he talked about the need to “tie the wounds of the nation.” Lincoln’s reconciliation called on never appeared, but there was a politician who tried to find a way out of the civil war, not the way.
Since the Lincoln National Healing has become the main product of American political discourse, most recently A busy barracks of Obama In his famous 2004 speech at the Democratic National Convention, where he stated that “there is no liberal America and conservative America, there is a United States.” At one point, their president is urged to issue similar banality in the moments of national feud.
As a result of the murder of Charlie Kirk, last week, President Trump is asked to take on the role of a “chief hech.”
Sunday, Yahoo! News endured the title“Trump hopes for national healing after shooting Charlie Kirk.” This headline suggested that Trump takes a encouraging voice used by predecessors such as Lincoln and Obama.
There is only one problem in this story: it has nothing to do with reality, because anyone who reads the article under this headline. Asked NBC NEWS about the national healing in an interview released on Sunday, Trump answers“I would like it to be (nation),” the president said in a short telephone interview. “But we are dealing with a radical left group of Sunny, and they do not play fairly and have never done.” So much for healing.
The comments emphasize what someone can see: that for Trump and his followers, only left violence is a threat, while the right extremism is just overly passionately captured by conservatism. Trump has consistently drawn the problem of political violence in such a unilateral way, not just accusing the left but releasing right violence.
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There is no ambiguity in this. On Friday, Trump was shut According to Fox News, if the “radical case” was also a problem. He was not easy to push back, saying, “I will tell you what will make me in trouble, but I couldn’t care. The radical right, often radical because they don’t want to see the crimes. The radicals left is a problem and they are cruel and they are horrible and they are politically perceived.”
Trump returned to this topic on Sunday, By telling journalists“The problem on the left. It’s none of the right like some people like to talk. If you look at the agitators – you look at the cut that is so bad about our country, the American flag burning is everywhere – it’s left, not right.”
It does not surprise when he came from a man who not only incited the attack on January 6 on the Capitol but also provided by sides or pardon Almost 1600 riots were sentenced on this day.
The natural results are that Trump administration uses Kirk’s murder as a justification for an attack on political enemies.
On Saturday, The New York Times report: “President Trump and his highest advisers increase their attacks on their opponents after the murder of Charlie Kirk, guilty of political violence only on the Democrats and signaling the broad repression of critics and left institutions.”
Of course, Trump’s claim that only the political violence of the left is a threat is a lie. The same day kirk was killed as well Shooting at school in Denver left two students injured. Investigators found that the shooter who killed himself before capturing it was posted on the Internet. Shooting in Denver goes on a sample of terrorist violence from the extreme right return of decades that includes 1995. Bombing The Federal Government buildings in Oklahoma -Sity Bombing 1995, which killed 188. Comparative analysis of political violence In the United States, since 1975, conducted by the Libertarian Cato Institute, he concluded that violence with the left, less frequent than the right or Islamist violence. Depending on whether 9/11 includes data or not, left violence is either 2 percent or 10 percent of political violence.
Out of this reality, some Republicans evaded Trump’s incendiary rhetoric. Sunday Senator Utah John Curtis said ABC“I think you need to take the word” radical “and delete the check or left. And radical when going out of any direction is not good. It’s not healthy and it should be called.” This non -partisan approach is repeated by many Democrats such as Governor Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro and independent, such as Senator Vermont Bernie Sanders.
But Trump cannot make such a non -partisan argument because his main political instinct is to divide the world into friends and enemies. New York Times Reporter Peter Baker sentences A convincing analysis of how Trump’s entire approach to politics puts it to disagree with the idea of national healing:
In an era of deep polarization in American society, he rarely talks about healing. While other presidents usually tried to lower the temperature in the minutes of the national crisis, Mr. Trump causes flames. It does not sign the traditional concept of the president for all people. It acts as President of Red America And the people who agree with him, while those who do not do it, are reflected as enemies and traitors who deserve payback.
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For Trump, polarization is not what they are afraid, but the tactics for obtaining and maintaining power. Thus, the “national healing” no longer has the strength as a desire. The real purpose of the current administration is not to associate the wounds of the division, but the use of the state to continue to sort through its enemies. This ultra -party implementation calls for national healing by other politicians insignificant. There can be no national healing unless Trumpism is defeated politically.
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