Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.

So it has been an incredibly weird week after a bizarre month. On Wednesday, September 10th,

right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk

was murdered. We still haven't heard the motivation from the shooter in custody. This, however,

has not stopped everyone from the president to the right-wing media networks and commentators

from blaming the left for the violence without evidence or logic. Elon Musk has called the Democrats

the party of murder. Donald Trump blames the radical

left for both the killing and for standing in the way of the healing and is said that the left-wing

groups will be under major investigation moving forward. Stephen Miller has said the left is a vast

domestic terrorist movement and has promised the Trump administration will use every resource at the government's

disposal to identify, disrupt, dismantle, and destroy them in Charlie's name. And as a result,

pretty much everyone I know in the left-wing progressive democratic space, myself included,

has received multiple death threats and online attacks since the shooting. People are being

fired in real time for not being sufficiently upset about Kirk's death, and the whole thing

just feels like an organized strategy to use yet another violent American death at the hands of

a shooter to divide the country and demonize the administration's political opposition at a time when the

president's popularity was waning. The party that laughed and mocked the kidnapping efforts of the

Democratic governor of Michigan, the near-beating death of Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's

husband Paul, the arson at the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania's house, the violent murder of a democratic lawmaker at the hands of a right-wing activist in Minnesota this summer,

and of course the party that instigated the January 6th violent attack on the U.S. Capitol

is dominating the media landscape with the idea that the radical left is responsible for the terrorism we see in this country today.

It should feel ludicrous to blame one half of the country for a single person's actions. Not only that, but to demonize the

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