I’ve been highly critical of the Democrats who have come out with statements about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, because they’re all disingenuous. They can rush to microphones and issue their polished statements about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, but I don’t buy a word of it, and frankly, I blame them for what happened. And I have good reasons for that.
For years, Democrats and their media allies have painted conservatives like Charlie Kirk as existential threats. They’ve called anyone questioning transgender ideology genocidal bigots. They’ve labeled border security advocates fascists. When you spend years telling your supporters that conservatives are an imminent danger to marginalized communities, they don’t get to express sympathy and be taken seriously because they are part of the problem.
On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) spoke to reporters about the shooting. She said, “This is just wrong and my heart goes out to his family, to his friends,” before, of course, launching into a tirade about gun control and blaming Trump and Republicans.
Do you really believe she has any genuine remorse for what happened to Charlie Kirk? I can tell you that she doesn’t.
Let’s take a short walk down memory lane to December 2024, after UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was assassinated.
During an episode of MSNBC’s The Reid Out—before Joy Reid was fired from the network—Warren appeared to express a level of sympathy for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing Thompon, as she discussed widespread frustration with the health insurance giant.
Joy Reid opened the discussion by framing the debate over Mangione: “We’ve been talking a lot about this Luigi Mangione, the case… about the UnitedHealthcare CEO. People are very angry at UnitedHealthcare, I think for good reason.”
Warren agreed, and argued that the social contract depends on those at the top paying more to ensure everyone else has a chance. “Part of the deal in how we’ve kept this… democracy, this economy, this country on a fairly steady path for more than 200 years has been that those at the top pay a little more in taxes… and everybody else at least gets a chance,” she said.
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Warren warned about the consequences of allowing billionaires unchecked power: “What happens when you turn this into… the billionaires run it all, is they get the opportunity to squeeze every last penny.” She then made an obligatory remark that violence is never the answer but expressed it in a way that clearly empathized with Mangione and his motive: “You can only push people so far. And then they start to take matters into their own hands.”
5) After the assassination of the UnitedHealth CEO, Elizabeth Warren sympathized w/ the impulse to murder: "You can only push people so far. And then they start to take matters into their own hands.” pic.twitter.com/dwNektVIfv
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 11, 2025
While Warren formally condemned violence, her remarks conveyed a deep understanding of Mangione’s motivations, framing his alleged act as an inevitable response to systemic injustice rather than a simple criminal choice.
And this is why I don’t take Democrats seriously when they issue their carefully scripted statements of “condemnation.” They may not stand at a podium and openly endorse political violence, but they’ve spent years excusing it, rationalizing it, and fueling the very atmosphere that makes it inevitable.
Democrats don’t get to set fire to the political climate, demonize conservatives as threats to democracy, and then pretend to be horrified when one of their own followers pulls the trigger. Their words and actions have consequences, and they are part of the problem. So no, I don’t care what Democrats say about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, because their disingenuous “condemnations” mean nothing when they’ve been quietly condoning and enabling this culture of violence all along.
