The journalist Michael Shellenberger appeared on Watters World this weekend and described the left as a “death cult” while reacting to the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the flood of ghoulish glee that followed from certain people.
Shellenberger is not a conservative; he is just a person with common sense who sees that the rhetoric of Democrats and the media has brought us to this point. He also calls out colleges and universities for the role they have played in this.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
JESSE WATTERS, FOX NEWS HOST: Public News founder, Michael Shellenberger is here.So the country has mourned, we are continuing to mourn, but there is still an anger about how this could happen to somebody like Charlie — not a politician, not an offensive individual — what should be the reaction to violence and the atmosphere like this?MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER, FOUNDER, “PUBLIC NEWS”: Hey, Jesse, it is great to be with you.Look, I think there are a lot of things that need to happen right now. I mean, first and foremost is that we, as a society need to call on those Democrat leaders who you highlighted earlier that have been — who have been dehumanizing, degrading conservatives, Republicans, the MAGA movement, Donald Trump in particular, dehumanization is what precedes atrocities and we have known that historically for a very long time and that’s what we saw happen.They need to renounce what they were saying about fascism, about Nazism. They need to take accountability that there are consequences for what they are doing, and it was to program an entire generation into an utterly absurd fantasy that the United States was being taken over by fascism. I mean, you saw it on the bullet casings of the alleged assassin himself.I mean, the second thing is that, we need a deradicalization program of colleges, of universities, of the schools and what we know from past deradicalization efforts around the world is that it is essential for people who have been radicalized to have a new identity, that comes from a new purpose in life and part of a new community, and they also need as part of that purpose, they need to come back to a story that is true about America, about why it is special, why it is different from so many so many other oppressive societies in the past, the freest society that has ever existed.We need to aggressively push back against that. The universities need to do that, the colleges need to do that, there needs to be — and if the Democrats aren’t going to do this, Jesse, then they need to be called out for it, because look, this shooter, this alleged shooter, he is downstream from a decade, at least a decade or more of that dehumanization.
Watch the whole thing below. This is excellent:
In our current environment, I fear that Shellenberger’s calls for accountability will fall on deaf ears. The left has shown us repeatedly over the last several days that they are incapable of reading the room.
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