MSNBC’s Chris Hayes used his Tuesday All In show to look back to Monday when Vice President JD Vance guest-hosted The Charlie Kirk Show after Kirk was brutally assassinated. As Hayes tells it, Vance was echoing anti-Semitic ideas when he criticized an article in The Nation because that outlet is funded by George Soros.
Hayes tried to argue that Vance’s reliance on the article in question fails to show a vast left-wing conspiracy to commit acts of political violence, “And in the complete absence of any evidence of any vast plots. Vance, instead, singled out an opinion column published by The Nation that criticized Kirk's cultural legacy while also condemning the violence that killed him.”
That condemnation by Elizabeth Spiers was not exactly the strongest, “I do not believe anyone should be murdered because of their views, but that is because I don’t believe people should be murdered generally, regardless of who they are or what they’ve done. I am against the death penalty, pro–gun control, and believe war is a failure of humanity, not a necessary byproduct of it. Kirk was fine with murder as long the right people were dying.”
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