How Trump seizes the killing of Charlie Kerk for a revenge campaign Donald Trump

They will gather mourning on one of their own. On Sunday, Donald Trump was scheduled to build late right -wing activist Charlie Kirk as a martyr of movement that made America great again (Maga).

But the Kirk souvenir service at a 63,000 -seat football field in Arizona can be exploited by critics by the American president to serve a darker purpose: converting collective sadness into a campaign to take revenge against the enemy of America at home.

Trump has spent the past ten days escalating threats against what he calls the “radical left” after the deadly shooting of Kirk, 31, on a university campus in Utah.

The White House is studying the classification of some groups as local terrorists and canceling the tax exemption for some non -profit organizations, although there is no evidence linking these groups to death.

Trump and his allies also sought to undermine the legitimacy of the Democratic Party, describing it as an extremist organization, although he greatly condemned the attack on Kirk.

Although officials insist that their focus prevents violence, critics see an extension of Trump’s campaign against revenge against his political opponents and the erosion of freedom of expression rights. They warn that in an echo of authoritarian governments all over the world, his administration is trying to harness the anger of Kirk’s killing to crush the opposition.

“Political violence is often used as an excuse to cancel civil freedoms and on opponents – this is the first page of the playing book,” he said. Stephen LevitskyA political world at Harvard University and a co -author of the book how democracies die.

“I am from Latin America through training, and the language we heard recently reminds me of a lot of the huge response to military dictators in South America in the 1970s, and that was in response to higher levels of political violence than we see in the United States.”

Levitsky added: “One is strongly pressured to find an authoritarian government that did not benefit either a terrorist attack or a political assassination – an episode of political violence – to increase the elimination of civil freedoms. These are major authoritarian things.”

Emotions must be raw in Sunday greeting to Kerk, a close ally of Trump and his son, Donald Trump Junior, and a major figure in filling in support to the president at universities. The authorities said they believed that the suspect, Tyler Robinson, 22, acted alone and accused him of death on Tuesday.

However, administration officials have repeatedly made comprehensive data about the need for investigations or wider Kirk’s death. Stephen Miller, the Supreme Policy Adviser, claimed without evidence of an “organized campaign that led to this assassination”.

Miller’s comments came during a conversation with JD Vance, who was hosting Kirk’s guest from his festive office at the White House on Monday.

Miller said he was “angry and righteous” and “we will direct all anger” by working to “uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks” using “all our resources.”

The vice president blamed “madness on the far left” for saying that the White House “will follow a constitutional protected speech.” Instead, he said: “We will go after the network of non -governmental organizations that are easy and facilitate and participate in violence.”

In response to examples of examples, the White House referred to the demonstrations in which police officers and federal agents were injured, in addition to distributing protective glasses and masks during the protests on the application of immigration in Los Angeles.

The American public prosecutor, Bam Bondi, blamed the “leftist extremists” in the shooting and said “they will be held accountable.” And she warned: “We will target you completely, we will chase you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech. This is through the corridor.”

Her comments sparked a violent reaction through the political spectrum, given that hate speech is generally protected under the first amendment to the constitution. Bondi tried to clean her statements, and to write on social media that she would focus on “hate speech that crosses the line to threats of violence.”

but Charlie SykesA conservative author and broadcaster said: “What you hear from Trump, JD Vans, Stephen Miller and Bam Bondi is an unambiguous intention to use this tragedy as an excuse to give up opposition and criticism.

“This is almost a classic step from the author of authoritarian play: Use a crisis to declare a state of emergency, to identify the enemies, then use this as an excuse to use the state’s authority as Google against political opponents.”

Trump has already announced that he appoints the anti -terrorism movement while the Heitage Thinktank and the supervision project, authors of the influential project plan 2025, I issued a note The transgender people are appointed as “violent extremists”.

Mixing the so -called alleged threats with the Democratic Party will be a leap, but it seems that Miller and the company seem ready to provide, regarding Levitsky as another typical typical maneuver. He said: “There is always a rhetorical slip of the hand in which extremists who may be real, imagine, or exaggerate your prevailing opposition.”

“It is not clear that the man who committed this assassination belongs to any far -left movement; it seems quite clear that he did not. It is very difficult to imagine that the far left, who represents in the United States incredibly weak, is a threat.”

He added: “This is used – and this is what the tyranny has done in many places – as an excuse to go to the Democratic Party, which uniformly denies this assassination and is not in any way related to, and notes what might be called opposition civil society.”

Jimmy Raskin, a member of the Maryland Democratic Congress, compared to the killing of Democrat Melissa Hortmann, a former spokesperson for the Minnesota State Council, and her husband. He said: “The Democrats did not draw a blame for the Republican Party or conservative philosophy.” “We were not involved in a series of guilt by the association’s tactics.”

Raskin’s reaction was also to the recent comments in which Miller described the Democrats as a “local extremist organization”. “What is its basis for that? This is from the guide of tyranny. Republic loves to describe anyone who does not accept his rule over society as a terrorist. This is Putin’s step; this is a pineuce.”

Since Trump has assumed positions, the federal government mobilizes pressure on law firms, universities and other independent institutions. According to what was reported, the White House referred to IrrevocableProgressive popular network, and The foundations of the open communityFounded by George Soros, as more possible scrutiny topics.

More than a hundred non -profit leaders, representing organizations including the Ford Foundation, the Omidiar network and the Mac Arthur Foundation, issued a joint speech saying, “We reject attempts to exploit political violence to misunderstand our good work or restrict our basic freedoms.”

After years of handrails against censorship and “cancellation of culture”, Trump and his allies are now wearing the discourse of their opponents. The people who considered that Kirk’s death have been filmed as a complicity in increasing political violence, as dozens, the comment, suspension, or discipline of the employers were launched, or disciplined them on “inappropriate” comments.

This week, the TV host was late at night, Jimmy Kimmel, was suspended by the ABC network about the comments he made about Kirk after pressing the Trump administration. Trump Proposal The organizers must consider canceling the licenses of networks that “give me only bad advertising”.

Trump also brought a lawsuit for $ 15 billion against the New York Times and four of its journalists, as the newspaper described as an indisputable attempt to install independent reports. On Friday, the judge threw the procedure, but he allowed Trump to recycle and amend him within 28 days.

Sykes, author of the book “How I lost the right to his mind, noticed:” The paradox is that Charlie Kirk justified a lot of his speech as freedom of expression and denied that there is something like a hate speech so that every speech was justified. They are ready to do the amount of 180 years completely, as they turned into his entire head by adopting a position he demanded.

“This is the party that insisted before 2024 that they were defending freedom of expression. JD VANCE went to Europe to give the Europeans to freedom of expression. Now what they do? They justify and lead a culture of cancellation under the auspices of the state.”

Trump’s concerns about selective political violence. People who carried out riots in the Capitol in the United States on January 6, 2021 described them as “hostages” and “Patriot” and pardoned 1500 of them on their first day in the oval office. He also mocked the Speaker of Parliament Emerita Nance Pelosi after an attack on her husband.

When Trump condemned the killing of Kirk in a video message, he mentioned several examples of “extreme left political violence” but ignored the attacks on Democrats. On Monday, it was asked about the killing of the representative of Minnesota Melissa Hortmann during the summer. Trump said: “I am not aware of” the case.

A recent study on political violence by the Kato Institute, which is a liberal garage, I found that right -wing extremists They killed six times more than their leftist counterparts over the past half.

Tara setmayer“They expect Democrats and people who do not agree with Maga’s vision of the world on the highway, and that somehow on this side to be the best angel, but it is not expected from they.

“Donald Trump can go out and call his political opponents that he does not care about their well -being. But if these people refer to the controversial and controversial situations of a person like Charlie Kerk or those who are in their administration, such as Stephen Miller Bondi, they are local terrorists.”

However, Trump still has steady support from Republicans in Congress. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and other legislation that would enable the Ministry of Justice to use extortion laws, which were originally depicted to combat organized crime, from the trial of violent demonstrators and the groups that support them.

The CHIP ROY member of the Texas of the House of Representatives want to create a special committee to investigate the non -profit groups, saying: “We must follow the money to determine the perpetrators of the coordinated US -attributed attacks that are being carried out against us.”

The right commentators also chanted the clamps. “Let’s close the left” and admitted that she wanted Trump “to be the” dictator “that the left believes.”.

Some analysts believe that Trump fulfills this ambition. Steve SchmidtA political expert said that he was unprecedented in the United States, where “the president and his allies used” this occasion to demand the unification of political power for themselves and collective punishment against their opposition, who were called as conspirators participating in a crime that had no participation. “

Schmidt indicated that the state asks the flags to reduce flags and impose a salute“