Whatever the motivation of the shooter this will energize the Christian right.
Christians are under attack.
That opens the door for Trump to enhance his position with Evangelicals as a Christian savior form god.
Chaos opens the door for dictators.
Okay, so here's the deal with that. If they're going to do something they haven't already been doing, e.g. declaring martial law in certain cities, they were going to do it anyway. There are federal troops stationed in blue cities now. They're taking people off the streets indiscriminately. It's provocative. At some point, someone was going to give them their reason.
Yes and no. One thing I heard said on one program this morning, the preacher (I assume he was a preacher of some sort) noted that Kirk was for open discourse and liberal society. "The people that killed him didn't". It is a very subtle detail that they would say "the people", but the intent is far from subtle. The response from the right-wing on this guy's death is out of the ordinary. Kirk was a talker, an influencer, and he is being heralded as a combination of JFK and MLK Jr, not hyperbole, that is what some on the right are saying, what I heard on AM talking head say, not some person who called in. He is being spoken about in religious terms. This appears to have sparked a crisis of faith among those on the alt-right or they are using faith to rise up their faithful for some hostility to be named later.
And we still don't know why he was targeted. But they are feeding it like this is a siege against their lives... despite the targeting and murder of Democrats as well recently.
Assuming it was a rational anti-Republican***, the reasons for it are pretty obvious.
Of course he's being talked about as a religious figure. It's been the same with Trump for a decade now.
With respect to the American conservative siege mentality, that's been around Iran-Contra----at least that was my first experience with it. Reagan didn't do anything wrong and Ollie North was an American hero. It was the now all too familiar elevation of two criminals to saint status.
I admire you for being tough enough to listen to conservative a.m. radio. I sincerely thank you for your service.
*** We don't know if the person who killed Chuck was indeed a rationale political actor. It could be some nutjob looking to get famous. It could have been a false flag operation. I'm not putting forth the latter as something worth discussing at this point, but it's certainly not out of the realm of possibility. Authoritarian regimes have a rich history of engaging in such operations.
