We're still figuring out all the implications of Charlie Kirk's assassination. One of the key people who will be left to pick up the pieces - aside from Mrs.Kirk, who has the toughest row to hoe of all - is Charlie's friend and partner, Jack Posobiec. In an interview with CNN's Meena Duerson on the feature "Outfront," Mr. Posobiec spoke on a number of things that Turning Point USA will be going through - and the state of the country following Charlie's murder.
Some key excerpts:
Meena Duerson: Posobiec is a leading voice in right-wing media, where some of his peers were quick to call Kirk's assassination an act of war.
(Cutaway to video, Steve Bannon speaking) Charlie Kirk's a casualty of war.
Duerson: Do you think we're at war?
Jack Posobiec: My friend's in a box right now. And, it wasn't an accident.
Duerson: Do you think we're facing a civil war?
Posobiec: Well, there's no question that we're clearly facing asymmetric civil warfare. One of the key aspects of that is political assassinations. That being said, the idea that we're going to a, you know, classic civil war scenario, I hope and I pray that doesn't happen.
We should all hope that doesn't happen, but it's worth noting that the only side that is shooting people is the left. The only side that is rioting, burning, and looting is the left. The only side that is dancing in the blood of anyone to the right of Joseph Stalin who dies for any reason is the left. This isn't a "both sides" issue. Not yet, anyway. And the differences couldn't be more stark. In the summer of 2020, the left took to the streets, rioting, burning, looting, causing billions in property damage - over the death of a drug-addicted serial criminal. Charlie Kirk was killed in what can only be described as a political assassination; he was a clean, law-abiding young husband and father, and yet there is no rioting, no burning, no looting.
The left does that. We don't.
The interview continues:
Duerson: Do you feel any responsibility to help bring the temperature down in this discourse?
Posobiec: I want people to be safe. But if you're someone who is part of a group that is fanning the flames of violence, that is encouraging this, or celebrating this, then that's absolutely something that we have to tamp down a hundred percent.
Note that Jack Posobiec doesn't dignify that question with a direct answer.
The entire interview bears watching, and kudos to Jack Posobiec for appearing on CNN - going, in effect, into the lion's den.
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Mr. Posobiec also shows some considerable fortitude here. He is dealing with the death of someone who, by all accounts, was his very good friend and partner. And yet he went on to do Charlie's podcast, with Charlie's chair empty; imagine what that must have been like. He points out, early in that interview, that the one thing that Charlie's friends and colleagues have to do is to "keep the lights on," to keep the effort moving forward.
That's a healthy outlook in a difficult time.