On yesterday’s “The Bulwark” podcast, Ezra Klein was the guest and he said the following in the wake of his own comments re: Charlie Kirk “practicing politics the right way”:

I just have a view that the 12 hours after somebody is publicly murdered for participating in politics is not the time when you need to fully litigate all your disagreements with them. I think it is a time when we can try to sit with each other, across a pretty wide party divide, and say:

“I see you. I can see your friend at least partly the way you saw your friend. And I can grieve with you.”

And I think that’s part of the political practice that I hope will keep us from falling into genuine, ongoing political violence.

You know, I’d be willing to get with that statement (in and of itself) if (and only if) the following were not being done throughout the exact 12 hours in question:

• The President of the United States, from the White House, blaming the “radical left” for the shooting
• The Fox News contingent screaming “this is war!” and “they did this!”
• The MAGA apologists lionizing and deifying Kirk

Let’s not get it twisted. Klein wasn’t the only one to say this. But I will I ask this re: the groups I just mentioned above:

Where is their care?

Where is their sensitivity?

Where is their humanity?

(…crickets…)

Yeah, didn’t think so.