This is the problem.... You and I feel that way but to a much larger chunk of Americans than we would like to admit, he did.
This is what I keep coming back too... Most Americans aren't paying attention to what inanity comes out of Kirk and Trump's mouths every day. The media only play the 20 second sound bites where they says something sort of in-line with normal. In Kirk's case, I used to think that they didn't know his positions but now I know they. They knew enough about Charlie Kirk to support him and his positions.
I said this is an another thread but I used to be able to at least understand some of those who voted for Trump as "I've always voted GOP" or that Republicans are more pro-business or would "fix" immigration. It is pretty evident that isn't the case. They want a President who spews vile words. They want to be told what to do and are OK with authoritarianism.
And the outpouring of grief from so many on the right, not just talking heads, but regular people has me convinced that there are just too many that are OK with the racism and misogyny and the move to authoritarianism. The NFL having a moment of silence last night... Kirk's body being taken to Phoenix on AF2 (whatever happened to waste, fraud and abuse)... A commentator losing his job for comments that were not incendiary and certainly far less egregious than things that have come from Kirk and GOP leadership over the past 10 years. These got thumbs up from a lot of people on the right. There is a dark undercurrent in American conservatives that isn't going to get fixed.
The right has spent the last 48 hours declaring war on those who don't support Trump and his cause. They are spewing bile about how terrible to left is. I'm just perplexed at where we are.
It, whatever it is, is broken and I don't think there's a solution. There's no deprograming to to do. This country is populated by too many who don't like those not like them. Whether that is LGBTQ, minorities, liberals, whatever. I used to look at Texags or SECRant posters and think (or maybe hope) that it really was a small undercurrent of Americans. It's not.
This is America.