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Sacha Stone (0:00)
Hi, this is Free Thinking through the fourth Turning. My name is Sacha Stone Assassination Nation. The Democrats need a revival of decency. They came out, all of them like Lady Macbeth, crying out damn. Spot anything to distance themselves from the words of Tyler Robinson to his lover, to justify the killing of Charlie Kirk. What was Charlie's big crime? He believed in the biological reality of men and women and refused to go along with what he thought was a lie. To Tyler Robinson, that meant he was spreading too much hate and it could not be negotiated down. He was not having a mental collapse. He was not suicidal. He was a cold blooded assassin doing the bidding of fanatics whose fury had brought them to this deadly moment. And so Charlie had to die. Because that's what happens to fascists. All of us who have been booted out of utopia for one reason or another knows what it feels like to have our characters assassinated by people who think their moral superiority means they have the right to be judge, jury, and now executioner of those who refuse to comply and conform. One wrong word and you're a racist. Even trying to stand up for someone being called a racist, like Megyn Kelly or Chris Harrison did means they'll assassinate your character anyway, with no due process and no presumption of innocence. It was in 2020 that I could not take it anymore. This ugly, unending, bottomless, dehumanizing of Trump and his supporters. Maybe it was my overabundance of empathy, maybe it was that I'd been attacked, my character assassinated. Or maybe it was lockdowns, my dear friend and ex boyfriend overdosing on heroin from loneliness, and my daughter moving across the country. Whatever it was, I felt the cold hand of evil every time I logged on. And I watched them unleash hell on one man, his family, his staff and his supporters. Why are they doing this? I demanded of them. They must know what I know, that dehumanizing whole groups of people is never the right side of history, no matter what. But once they cast Trump supporters as racist white people, fascists and Nazis, there were no limits on what they could say or do. But someone had to be lying. Why would millions of people have voted for Trump, including my brother, if he were as bad as the media said he was? And it turns out it wasn't just the media doing the lying, it was the Democrats too, and all of the good soldiers on social media going along with their lies. I used to be one of them. I went along with the lies, too, because I thought we were fighting to defeat an existential threat. But by the end of it, all I could see was that we'd built an empire of lies, just like Bernie Madoff did, and that our empire would collapse just like his. Once people started to uncover the truth, it was always going to end up here, because that's how dehumanization campaigns always end. Lynchings in the Deep south, concentration camps in Nazi Germany and the hangings in Salem or the manson murders in 1969, the bombings of the Capitol in the 1970s, and now attacks on ICE officers. Here is Mark Halperin covering for Megyn Kelly.