Chris Hayes's guests tonight included extremism expert Jeff Sharlet warning people NOT to celebrate or mock Kirk's death

[AZJonnie]

12. Me too. Fascinating and frightening work, whenever I see his name I recall it.

He's not wrong, that's why I personally and purposefully am not saying anything along lines that could constitute 'celebration', or declaring his murder to be 'okay', let alone 'good'. I will express that there is some great cosmic irony in the fact that someone who blithely downplayed the suffering caused by gun violence, who no doubt thought his money and influence would protect him ... became a victim thereof. That's not to say he 'deserved it', but rather that he tempted fate, and fate had the last word.

I will, however, criticize the Trump admin, and the rest of the fascists reactions and rhetoric, esp. the part where they imply that 'the left' is even remotely as responsible for gun deaths of this nature, or that we are the side that is advocating political violence, because that is bullshit. Trump has been spewing violent rhetoric against his perceived enemies since he came down the fucking escalator (and even before that).

You want to talk about a lack of decorum? Trump is the guy who, on the day of 9/11, instead of expressing a WORD of sympathy for the unknown 1000's of people dead, bragged that he now had the tallest building in Manhattan. And he's been a seething mass of animus who most assuredly gets off on the idea of physically harming anyone who opposes his will or gets in his way.

He can stuff his 'radical left lunatics' nonsense where the sun don't shine. HE IS THE CAUSE, he is the one with the most violent and offensive rhetoric, AND actions. Dude has absolutely ZERO desire for any sort of peace, and every single day he wakes up with the idea of causing chaos, hurting people, enriching and empowering himself, and exacting revenge. He is NOT a good person, in short.