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Bulwark Takes

Right-Wing Cancel Culture Explodes After Kirk Assassination

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Andrew Egger break down the online fallout from Charlie Kirk’s assassination — from Stephen Miller’s threats of government crackdowns to right-wing cancel culture and Kari Lake’s bizarre blame-shifting. What does it say about how America processes tragedy in the age of toxic social media?

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0:00.0

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0:01.5

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0:41.1

One should be. parent to the children than I typically am to plants. So we'll see. We'll see how it goes. I hope you're a better parent to your children than your plant.

0:40.3

You should be.

0:41.1

One should be.

0:41.7

We're here to talk about something not as fun as Andrew's inability to keep plants alive.

0:48.3

We're talking about the aftermath of Charlie Kirk assassination.

0:52.5

I want to talk to Andrew about what's happening, I guess, primarily online,

0:59.2

although not necessarily just online, but it looks to be a fairly concerted effort to go after

1:05.5

people who have been critical of Kirk and try to excommunicate them from their jobs or public life in general.

1:13.8

And it's really obviously a difficult thing to talk about because everyone should and

1:18.0

almost almost everyone abhors what happened to Charlie Kirk, condemns it.

1:23.5

No one in elected office that I see has done anything other than say it is condemnable and that no one should be excusing it.

1:34.3

And it's awful and it pretends horrible things for our politics and our society.

1:38.8

But there are people who aren't elected but have, I guess, substantial followings or just are out there tweeting

1:46.5

and posting as people do, you know, saying Kirk was not a nice guy. And it's created this backlash

1:53.3

to the backlash that Andrew writes about in today's morning shot. So, Andrew, why don't you talk

1:57.5

a little bit about the newsletter that you were today? And then we could go through some examples here.

2:01.4

Yeah. So this is kind of happening on that you were today? And then we could go through some examples here. Yeah.

2:01.7

So this is kind of happening on two tracks, right?

2:04.5

And what I wrote about today was the political track, what the White House is sort of explicitly promising to do, which is if you listen to, you know, guys like Stephen Miller, who's really kind of the central policy figure in this White House,

2:19.3

what they're gearing up to do is to crack down on what they call the radical left, very, very

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