> ... we can speak against political violence without somehow twisting ourselves around to defend others who spoke for it. We don’t have to imitate Kirk’s violent rhetoric, nor do we have to cover it up. We have to name it accurately, accurately as what it was. We have to name the murder of Kirk accurately as what it was: an assassination, a murder.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/11/charlie_kirk_political_violence_jeff_sharlet #AmyGoodman and
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“Moment of Great Peril”: Jeff Sharlet on Killing of Charlie Kirk & Rising Political Violence in U.S.
The conservative activist Charlie Kirk, founder of right-wing student organization Turning Point USA, was assassinated Wednesday as he spoke before a crowd at Utah Valley University on the first stop of a fall campus tour. Kirk was 31 years old and founded Turning Point when he was just 18. A major cheerleader for Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, he was killed by a single shot fired from a roof as he was responding to a question from an audience member about mass shootings. No suspect has been identified. Kirk transformed politics in the U.S., says journalist Jeff Sharlet, by organizing conservative youth around cultural issues including opposition to immigration and civil rights for LGBTQ people, people of color and women. Sharlet, who has written extensively about right-wing and white nationalist movements in the United States, says Kirk’s “big issue was singular: It was whiteness.” He discusses Kirk’s legacy and the implications of this latest high-profile instance of political violence.
Jeff Sharlet on Charlie Kirk. Yesterday I didn’t know who CK was: replacing Rush Limbaugh? Sharlet is a go to expert on the right in US, professor at Dartmouth. He contends that Kirk’s white supremacy laid the foundation of his actions; above all Kirk was an extremely effective organizer and Sharlet attributes the increase in youth support for Trump to Kirk.
#whitesupremacy #murder #violence #JeffSharlet https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/11/charlie_kirk_political_violence_jeff_sharlet“Moment of Great Peril”: Jeff Sharlet on Killing of Charlie Kirk & Rising Political Violence in U.S.
The conservative activist Charlie Kirk, founder of right-wing student organization Turning Point USA, was assassinated Wednesday as he spoke before a crowd at Utah Valley University on the first stop of a fall campus tour. Kirk was 31 years old and founded Turning Point when he was just 18. A major cheerleader for Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, he was killed by a single shot fired from a roof as he was responding to a question from an audience member about mass shootings. No suspect has been identified. Kirk transformed politics in the U.S., says journalist Jeff Sharlet, by organizing conservative youth around cultural issues including opposition to immigration and civil rights for LGBTQ people, people of color and women. Sharlet, who has written extensively about right-wing and white nationalist movements in the United States, says Kirk’s “big issue was singular: It was whiteness.” He discusses Kirk’s legacy and the implications of this latest high-profile instance of political violence.
"A Moment of Great Peril": Jeff Sharlet on Killing of Charlie Kirk
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"Vermont Conversation: Journalist Jeff Sharlet on American fascism and how a civil war is speeding up
Everything Trump has said he was going to do, he has attempted to do. It’s time to lay aside the ‘this is just negotiating tactics’. He’s going to negotiate us right down into full fascism.”
https://vtdigger.org/2025/04/23/vermont-conversation-journalist-jeff-sharlet-on-american-fascism-and-how-a-civil-war-is-speeding-up/
Vermont Conversation: Journalist Jeff Sharlet on American fascism and how a civil war is speeding up
“Everything Trump has said he was going to do, he has attempted to do. It's time to lay aside the ‘this is just negotiating tactics.' He's going to negotiate us right down into full fascism.”
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Important info! See also #JeffSharlet whose in-depth investigative journalism has outed the Fascist 'Family' behind the Prayer Breakfast (if anyone were paying attention)
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-slow-civil-war-with-jeff-sharlet/ar-BB1pW4S4
Here's a reverie: A Kamala Harris/Jeff Sharlet ticket would be not just a poetic answer to the Republican narrative of family, but an elegiac rebuke of it.
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