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Whatever the hell this is—you read the headline. It’s not good.
The Minnesota killings, in which two Democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot and one pair tragically died, are already, on the slimmest possible basis, being presented as an act of “right-wing political violence.”
Donald Trump has promoted and excused violence against his opponents—and now look what’s happened. A gun-toting, MAGA-supporting, white Christian nationalist has taken Trump at his word and gone out and shot himself a brace of Democrat state senators he doesn’t like. We told you this would happen.
It was only a matter of time.
Here, for example, is Chris Murphy, a senator from Connecticut, posting on X yesterday.
“The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA’s legitimization of political violence. Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn’t a both sides issue.”
There then follows a thread of eight further Tweets in which Murphy describes all the ways MAGA is “bathed in political violence.” There’s Jan 6th and Trump’s pardon of the “rioters”—“a clear endorsement of violence committed in his name”—but Trump has also threatened protesters at his rallies and “cozied up to brutal dictators.” MAGA “celebrates” the “killing power” of guns: it “fetishizes” them, rather than treating them with “respect.” Trump has said he’d pardon those involved in the attempted “kidnapping” of Gretchen Whitmer, and right now he’s deployed the military to the streets of Los Angeles “to inflame and create the conditions for more violence,” including against politicians like Senator Padilla.
Senator Murphy ends his thread by claiming that, despite the multiple attempts on President Trump’s life and oh yes remember Steve Scalise, “there is no comparison anywhere on the left with MAGA’s regular legitimization of violence in our politics.”
“There is”—Murphy ends with a flourish— “a straight line from Jan 6 to the pardons to the assault on Sen. Padilla to Minnesota. A democracy cannot function when one faction embraces violence.”
Strong stuff.
Very strong stuff.
But of course, it’s nonsense.
I don’t need to tell you the left is the side legitimizing political violence in America today. Just look at what’s happening with Luigi Mangione. Take a look at the placards and severed heads on display at the “No Kings” protests on Saturday. Take a look at the person gunned down in the street at the Salt Lake City protests.
But that’s not the nonsense I’m concerned about in Chris Murphy’s diatribe.
We know next to nothing, and certainly next to nothing that makes sense, about Vance Boelter, the man arrested yesterday for the killings after a massive statewide manhunt.
The “hate-filled rightwinger” bit is courtesy solely of a weird sweaty fat guy CBS is claiming was Boelter’s roommate. This “roommate” works at Papa John’s. Boelter has a wife and five kids and a security company.
This “roommate” told CBS Boelter would be “offended if people called him a Democrat.” Boelter “was a Trump supporter” and “voted for Trump” in 2024.
The victims were Democrats, sure, and Boelter appears to have been a sincere evangelical Christian; but what about the fact he was appointed to a government position by Democrat Governor Tim Walz in 2019? What about the fact his wife also worked for Walz when he was a Congressman?
The vehicle Boelter apparently used for the killings was full of flyers saying “NO KINGS,” a clear reference to the nationwide anti-Trump protests that were held under that slogan on the very day of the killings and attempted killings. (Anti-Trump protests to which Senator Chris Murphy is intimately tied, by the way, via the Soroses and USAID.)
There are too many alarming, incongruous and downright weird things to be said about the circumstances of these killings and the identification of Boelter as the killer, for me to list here.
Okay but here’s one more for luck: When Boelter’s wife was arrested at the weekend she had a large amount of money in cash (c.$50k), guns and multiple passports in her car with her. Odd, huh?
No more. I won’t speculate about the suspect’s brother and his history as an undercover officer working with the FBI, nor about the suspect’s work in private security—nor indeed about his ties to Eastern Europe, Gaza and Africa via a shady-looking religious NGO that was probably receiving funds direct from the USAID spigot.
I won’t use words and phrases like “glowie,” “obvious spook,” “deep-state asset,” “Manchurian candidate,” or “MKULTRA victim,” but you might wish to do so.
There’s a deep rabbit hole to dive headfirst into and explore. If that tickles your fancy, read this thread from the John Birch Society which discusses in detail some of the most glaring inconsistencies, incongruities and red flags.
Early days—there will be more.
Still, I’m not sure we’ll ever find out what truly motivated the killer to do what he did. It might be simple “MAGA extremism” or, as I suspect, it might have something to do with the two victims crossing the senate floor to vote against illegals receiving state healthcare. Minnesota is home to the largest Somalian refugee population in the US, a group that’s notorious for massively abusing state healthcare provisions.
One thing we can say with certainty, though, is that real political violence—deadly political violence—is becoming normalised in a way that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. State politicians, national politicians, the president himself—all are now targets for killing. No-one is safe. Killing is now a routine way to get things done.
Whatever the Minnesota shootings were, they weren’t part of the “Mangione model”—or they don’t seem to be. Since he gunned down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York in December, little Luigi has become a modern-day Robin Hood for the impotent and exhausted America left as it struggles to come to terms with the scale of its defeat to Donald Trump. Now every leftist rank-and-file who wants to engage in the power process, and lacks an official outlet, can just pick up a gun and “do something,” eliminate a hated member of America’s “oligarchy”—like Luigi Mangione.
But this, this is different. As I say, I don’t know what it is. But I do know I don’t like it. It smells really bad. In fact, it reeks.
