Deranged leftists have identified the culprits in the murder today of Charlie Kirk. But some of them aren’t the shooter, apparently.

Matthew Dowd, a former strategist for the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign who backed Vice President Kamala Harris, blamed Kirk for his “hateful words.” Far-left Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois blamed President Donald Trump and the so-called January 6 rioters.

Kirk was shot to death at a rally at Utah Valley University during an event on his American Comeback tour. The murder suspect has not been identified.

Kirk’s murder comes just months after the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) added the group he founded, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), to its “hate map.”

MSNBC’s immediate reaction was to label Kirk “divisive,” and call upon a former Bush-Cheney factotum to pin the blame on Kirk.

MSNBC hostess Katy Tur — whose father, Robert, is a “transgender” woman who calls himself Hanna Zoey — called Kirk “divisive” and “polarizing.”

“Why is that?” she asked Harris fangirl Matthew Dowd. Dowd then gave a short description of Kirk’s rise to prominence, largely thanks to the rise of Trump.

“Talk to me about the environment in which a shooting like this happens,” Tur said, inviting Dowd to blame Kirk.

“We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration, so we have no idea about this,” Dowd began:

But following up with what was just said, [Kirk has] been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech … sort of aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to hateful thoughts, lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I think that’s the environment we’re in, that … you can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have, and then saying these awful words, and not expect awful actions to take place. 

Meanwhile, J.B. Pritzker, who presides over a state in which the biggest city is the scene of mass shootings almost every weekend, blamed President Trump.

“I think there are people who are fomenting [violence] in this country,” he said:

I think the president’s rhetoric often foments it. We’ve seen the January 6th rioters who clearly have tripped a new era of political violence.

Oddly, Pritzker didn’t include the Summer of Riots in 2020 after the overdose death of George Floyd while being restrained by police. But in any event, End Wokeness and other X accounts have posted what appears to be a threat to murder Kirk.

“Charlie Kirk is coming to my college tomorrow i rlly hope someone evaporates him literally,” X user “Omar” wrote. “Lets just say something big will happen tomorrow.”

Kirk was murdered today as he answered a question about mass shootings.

Video shows Kirk lurch upward when the bullet hits his neck, then blood pouring out as he falls to the ground.

Earlier video also showed a man in custody claiming “I have the right to remain silent.” That man is not a suspect, though, the New York Post reported.

However, FBI chief Kash Patel reported on X that a suspect is in custody.

President Trump ordered flags to be flown at half mast to honor the slain conservative activist.

Resurfacing on X are posts about the Southern Poverty Law Center’s inclusion of Kirk’s Turning Point USA on its crackpot “hate map.” In May, the Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal reported that the SPLC accused Kirk and Turning Point of being white-supremacist sympathizers.

“The SPLC accuses Turning Point and its founder, @charliekirk11, of propping up ‘white Christian supremacy,’” the website’s Tyler O’Neil wrote on X: 

Now, if Charlie Kirk were racist & theocratic, would Turning Point have a presence on more than 3K campuses?

“The political right in the U.S., whose party infrastructure is dominated by the Republican Party but includes the current Libertarian Party and is flanked to the right by the Constitution Party, has embraced aggressive state and federal power to enforce a social order rooted in white supremacy,” SPLC claimed in an anti-TPUSA hit piece:

Turning Point USA and its growing influence on conservative politics is emblematic of this current state.

But the disgraced anti-hate outfit didn’t stop there.

Accusing TPUSA of peddling the “politics of fear,” SPLC claimed that “Turning Point USA’s primary strategy is sowing and exploiting fear that white Christian supremacy is under attack by nefarious actors, including immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community and civil rights activists.”

“TPUSA and its spokespeople often warn their audience that their children, wives, religion, way of life and they themselves are under attack by various constructed enemies,” the far-left website complained:

TPUSA exploits complicated feelings of insecurity and anxiety to manufacture rage and mobilize support to revive and maintain a white-dominated, male supremacist, Christian social order.

TPUSA is at the forefront of the movement to promote Christian nationalism, the theocratic worldview that the U.S. is a fundamentally Christian country and that Christian values and beliefs should inform the government and wider culture. In a clip Kirk shared on X, he blamed shifts in the religious makeup of America for causing “a constitutional crisis” and asserted, “You cannot have liberty if you don’t have a Christian population.”

But, as O’Neil recalled, that same hate map inspired Floyd Lee Corkins to attempt a mass murder at the headquarters of the Family Research Council in 2012. SPLC labeled FRC a “hate group” in 2010.

SPLC added TPUSA to its bogus “hate map” three months ago.