FROM DIGNITY TO BLASPHEMY: How words became 'violence'.

The Politicians’ Evasion

Now, many politicians insist they bear no responsibility for Kirk’s death. But what business are they in, if not the business of words? Every speech, every sound bite, every tweet is meant to persuade, to shape belief, to frame an opponent as hero or villain. They know words influence minds — that’s why they use them.

And here’s the hypocrisy: these same politicians are the ones insisting that words are violence. If that’s true, then what did they think was going to happen when they called conservatives “fascists,” “bigots,” “sexists,” “homophobes,” and “a danger to democracy and human rights”? They poured gasoline and then pretended surprise when someone struck a match.

They cannot wash their hands of this. They spent years telling Americans that people such as Kirk were not just wrong, but evil — not just mistaken, but existential threats. Someone finally believed them. Someone acted. And now they want to hide behind platitudes and deny the obvious.

Words have power. They know it. They built their careers on it. And when those words helped put a bullet in Charlie Kirk, they lost the right to pretend otherwise.

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