Charlie Kirk now being compared to McCarthy/McCarthyism.

[Jedi Guy]

25. I've seen some mental gymnastics in the last week or so but that's impressive.

Robinson's mother describes her son as having become more sympathetic to LGBTQ issues over the last few years. He was living with and dating a person who is trans and in the process of transitioning. Robinson was described by family members as expressing great dislike for Kirk during a recent family dinner and characterized Kirk as hateful and spreading hate.

Now, that doesn't sound to me like something a right-winger would say. Logic suggests that Robinson, though he came from a MAGA family, fell away from his family and his political views changed. This happens all the time, conservative families have children break liberal or the reverse. No doubt his romantic entanglement with his roommate played some role in that process.

But to suggest that he's a "socially liberal" MAGA openly dating a trans person is ludicrous, full stop. MAGA isn't socially liberal in any sense of the term, the two are incompatible. The roommate was also described by a family member as "hating Christians and conservatives" so it doesn't stand to reason that they would date Robinson if he was still conservative.

And putting the "disavowal of Trump" as a condition on it is equally absurd. People don't write lengthy manifestos just because their political views changed. Their political views just change.

I get the desire to believe that it was internecine violence on the right. It's distressing to accept the idea that someone on the left was capable of such coldblooded violence because of their political views because we're the good guys. But the reality is that people aren't inherently virtuous just because they hold certain views.

You're clinging to denial, to be quite frank.