Crockett Defends Extreme Rhetoric After Charlie Kirk Assassination
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Texas Democrat, defended comparing President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler during an appearance on “The Breakfast Club” on Friday.
The comments came just two days after conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah by a leftist gunman, and after years of Democrats comparing Trump and his supporters to the evil 20th-century German dictator.
Also, her remarks underscored a growing pattern in which Democrats refuse to lower the temperature of political rhetoric even as violence escalates.
On the program, Crockett not only stood by the Hitler comparison but also tried to blame Trump himself for political violence.
“We’ve got to talk about, like, what it means when you’re runnin’ for president or you’re runnin’ for one of these higher offices, and you go out there and you talk about beating people up,” she said.
“You go out there and you say things like ‘I can shoot somebody in the middle of the street in New York and I could still win.’”
“We gotta talk about – like, that is next level. Me disagreeing with you, me calling you a wannabe Hitler, all those thing are, like, not necessarily saying, ‘Go out and hurt somebody,’ but when you’re literally telling people at rallies, ‘Yeah, beat him up,’ and that kind of stuff, like, you are promoting like a culture of violence, so we need to talk about like what it looks like when you don’t promote a culture of violence.”
That has been the effect of Democrat rhetoric for years — branding Republicans as existential threats to freedom, using dark and dehumanizing language to paint their opponents as villains.
Former President Joe Biden was no different. As far back as 2016, he admitted he fantasized about assaulting Trump “behind the gym.”
Such statements send a clear message: Republicans are not just rivals but enemies of humanity.
Modern progressives push this rhetoric while many of their most passionate supporters glorify violence. Without faith or moral grounding, they cling to every word their leaders say.
And those leaders continually portray Republicans as threats to democracy, liberty, and life itself.
When you tell impressionable people that their opponents are no different from Nazis, it is no surprise when a fanatic decides to act.
Democrats refused to temper their words after two separate assassination attempts against Trump last year.
And it is no wonder where Kirk’s assassin, Tyler Robinson, was radicalized.
A former high school friend of Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, described him as “pretty left on everything” and said he was the “only member of his family that was really leftist.”
“The rest of his family was very hard Republican,” the friend said in a phone interview Friday, asking to remain anonymous, The Guardian reported.
The friend said Robinson’s political views became more extreme around his sophomore year. “He would always just be ranting and arguing about them,” the friend said.
They recalled spending time together playing video games and noted that the bullet engraving with the arrows was a reference to Helldivers 2. The friend explained that the arrows specifically pointed to “calling in a big bomb that exists” in the game “called the 500 kilogram.”
When the friend saw Friday’s news, he said he was stunned. “I knew he [Robinson] had strong political views, but I never thought it would even go near that far.”
Trump announced early Friday that a suspect had been arrested in connection with the shooting.
“I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” during a live interview at the cable giant’s Manhattan studio, saying he heard just minutes before his 8 a.m. interview.
