The right is using stories about the alleged killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to push their narrative about the left—mangling reality to silence dissent and encourage political retribution against the right’s ideological foes.

Similarly, conservatives have been whitewashing and sanitizing Kirk’s legacy of racism, misogyny, and conspiratorial thinking.

Unsurprisingly, the parade of dishonesty is being led by President Donald Trump, who rushed to connect the shooter to the left. In a video released after Kirk’s death, Trump claimed that the fault lay with the “radical left.”

Trump, who has spent his entire time as a public figure demonizing his detractors, complained that the left has been “demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year, in the most hat

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