The sorrow of tragedy, much like the fog of war, unfurls chaos that makes exercising the equanimity needed to ascertain the truth all but impossible. In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the increasingly fraught tensions ripping America apart at the seams provide a veil that the powers that be charting the course of the nation’s future are able to hide behind while pushing their ulterior motives. The veneer of the surface-level narrative about Kirk’s murder clouds public perception from examining the events that led to his death on a deeper level, as the acceptance of an explanation that largely and seemingly all-too-conveniently triggers the confirmation bias of the supporters grieving his loss is much easier to process.
The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and Reuters on Saturday all tried to link Nick Fuentes and Groypers to the Charlie Kirk shooter on the flimsiest of pretexts — all while the authorities were insisting the alleged gunman was “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology.” 