After conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot but before he was pronounced dead on Wednesday, former NBC and MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner declared on The Jim Acosta Show that we all have to tone down the “insane rhetoric,” but claimed that is hard to do because of President Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington, D.C.

Kirschner’s initial thought was decent enough, “I fear that where we are is, if not at a boiling point, we are, you know, at this simmering stage where it feels like people are maybe so desperate, so anxious, so despondent at the circumstances that political violence is going to become a viable, you know, possibility for them to sort of deal with their frustration, their anxiety, and their despair.”

Unfortunately, he then derailed, “And we all have to find a way to cool it down and ratchet that back, which is hard to do when you have the streets of Washington, D.C. militarized. You know, what signal is the administration sending that, you know, we are willing to do anything to expand our control of the people? So I wish we could find a way to begin to reduce the heat and pull back from this insane rhetoric that has been going on.”

That’s the problem. Everybody believes it is somebody else’s fault because their cause is the just one. Liberals cannot on one hand claim Trump is militarizing D.C. and this is such a threat to the American way that it makes level-headed political discourse extremely difficult while simultaneously making jokes about how the National Guard soldiers have been put on leaf-blowing duty.

Here is a transcript for the September 10 show:

The Jim Acosta Show

9/10/2025

GLENN KIRSCHNER: I fear that where we are is, if not at a boiling point, we are, you know, at this simmering stage where it feels like people are maybe so desperate, so anxious, so despondent at the circumstances that political violence is going to become a viable, you know, possibility for them to sort of deal with their frustration, their anxiety, and their despair. And we all have to find a way to cool it down and ratchet that back, which is hard to do when you have the streets of Washington, D.C. militarized. You know, what signal is the administration sending that, you know, we are willing to do anything to expand our control of the people? So I wish we could find a way to begin to reduce the heat and pull back from this insane rhetoric that has been going on.