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It’s Getting Harder and Harder Not to Hate the Left, But…

Jim Taft
By Jim Taft 18 Min Read
It’s Getting Harder and Harder Not to Hate the Left, But…

We can’t let hate fill our hearts. 

But I have to admit, it’s hard sometimes to avoid it. We are enjoined by God to refrain from hating our enemies, and implored to turn the other cheek in the face of hatred. 





But it’s hard when we are confronted with things like this: 

The extremes of the left, or any political movement, go over the top all too often. Especially on social media, where people feel free to let their freak flag fly. 

But it has become mainstream for leftist politicians to encourage their followers to demonize people and bask in the applause. It is now common for “mainstream” Democrats to applaud and even encourage political violence and blame it on the people who are the target. 

Erin Maye Quade is a sitting state senator from a suburban district in the Twin Cities area, and she is out there, as Charlie Kirk’s family is mourning his death, as his body cools, blaming him for inciting the violence directed at him. 

My governor, Tim Walz, was laughing about the potential death of Donald Trump and openly hoping that the news of his death would come soon, and that came after several comments about how Democrats have to ramp up their opposition to Republicans and get meaner. 





Well, Democrats have accomplished that, haven’t they?

Republicans feel…hunted. As in literally hunted by Democrats who are constantly talking about “days of vengeance” and being at “war” with us because we are an “existential threat to democracy” and “Nazis” who are committing “genocide.”

Democrats BOOED Charlie Kirk on the floor of the House of Representatives of the United States of America as his body cooled at a hospital in Utah. 

Who does that?

Democrats keep blaming Republicans for inciting violence, but somehow the violence is always against Republicans and people of faith. As leftists shoot down one target after another–kids praying at MASS!–we are told that it is our fault because we won’t submit to every insane demand that the left makes. 





The left always couches their arguments as expressions of love and compassion, but somehow their preferred actions and policies always end in the death of people they disagree with. 

Somehow, we have to learn to live in the same country together, and I honestly believe that this is possible, but the first step that must be taken to get there is sincere self-reflection on the part of liberals. 

Charlie Kirk was not a hateful man. Quite the opposite. His crime was, put simply, disagreeing with liberals and saying so. Not in a nasty way–his whole shtick was having conversations with people and discussing what he thinks and what they think. He, unlike his opponents, respected people with whom he disagreed enough to CONVERSE with them. 

The response was to kill him. And to celebrate his death. 

Not every Democrat is celebrating his death, and, surprisingly, not every one of them has gone the MSNBC route of blaming him for his being shot. 

But plenty of them are. Many of them are blaming Kirk, or Trump, or “right wing rhetoric.”





For a decade we have been subjected to a constant hate campaign, and the patience that conservatives have shown in the face of this slander is amazing. 

Democrats have dehumanized Conservatives. It started with Obama calling us bitter Americans who cling to our guns and our religion. It was Hillary Clinton calling us an irredeemable basket of deplorables. It was Joe Biden calling us the dregs of society. It was Maxine Waters telling them to absolutely harass us in restaurants and grocery stores. They called us Nazis and Hitler. They called us homophobes and bigots and racists and xenophobes. I hold all them responsible. They all have blood on their hands today.

But there is a breaking point, and we just moved a giant step closer to it thanks to yesterday’s events. The level of anger I have seen is off the charts. It is building on recent events–the left justifying crime in our cities as just a normal part of life is part of it–and the MSNBC comments blaming Kirk for his own death infuriated even more people.

Not to mention their instant reaction, not being horrified at the violence, but the worry that Trump might somehow benefit. 

The hate drips from every pore.

It’s hard not to hate people who make it obvious that they hate you. 





Still, we have to take a step back and remember that few normal people are so hate-filled. We have to distinguish between the demonic and the deluded. Yes, the deluded who follow the demonic are, at least unconsciously, aiding the cause of the demonic. But they are not demonic themselves. 

Few people are truly celebrating what happened. Unfortunately, they are unwilling to face the truth that the people they support are. Their flaw is not having the wit and moral courage to look reality in the face. 

They are cowards, not evil. That is no excuse, but it is a call to all of us to see them as potential converts if we can shake them out of their cowardly cringe. 

Rage–as justifiable as it is–will not help us win the battle for the soul of the nation. That doesn’t mean we have to cower in the face of evil and just take it. 

We can fight back. We must fight back. But we shouldn’t do so by adopting the tactics of our enemy. 

Hate is not what we need right now. It is resolve, which is very different. Hate is thoughtless. Hate is easy. Hate requires no control. It is akin to panic–it blinds you. 





“His organization, that he started and has become so successful, it’s called Turning Point.”

“I can’t help but think in some ways that that’s providential.”

“The name of that organization…that not only did they start something that was designed to help change the country for the better…”

“But Charlie’s death should be an invitation for the rest of us…to make this an actual turning point for the future of our country.”

Resolve, on the other hand, is hard. It requires courage in the face of hardship and danger in a way that hate does not. Hate can drive people to face danger, but resolve is what gets you through danger to your ultimate goal. 

Our goal shouldn’t just be to defeat the left, but to renew America. An America torn apart by a civil war, as Chris Murphy wants, won’t be saved even when conservatives win. 

Charlie’s children will be raised with stories instead of memories, photographs instead of laughter, and silence where their father’s voice should have echoed. 

Charlie Kirk’s life should serve as a symbolic reminder that compassionate awareness elevates family, love, and country.

We need to knit the country together, and with all our differences, we are nowhere near where we were in 1865, when Lincoln spoke these words that helped begin the healing. He paid the ultimate price, but our country was knit back together nonetheless. 

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan–to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.





My favorite place in D.C., as with so many others, is the Lincoln Memorial. His two greatest speeches are inscribed in marble there, and they are a great reminder that what this country stands for is greater than any one of us. 

It’s worth reading James’ tweet in full. It is long, so I invite you to click it and read it yourself, but he is right: we can choose civilization or catharsis. Revenge would give us catharsis, but at the expense of civilization. 

Despite the provocation, we must choose civilization. That doesn’t mean giving in; it just means not giving in to our inner demons and seeking revenge. It means fighting for our civilization. 


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