In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the entire right-wing movement has, after years of likening their political opponents to Hitler and the Nazis, suddenly declared that such language is unacceptable and dangerous when it is used by the left.
Predictably, those decrying this sort of language have used it repeatedly themselves and are even openly calling for violence in response to Kirk's murder.
This hypocrisy was on full display during a recent episode of "I'm Right with Jesse Kelly."
Kelly, himself a far-right broadcaster who has likened his opponents to Nazis and declared that he wants to see a "monster" unleash authoritarianism against communists, blamed Democrats for Kirk's murder.
"The people who are mentally shattered, the people who don't value human life, they hear Democrat after Democrat, media person after media person talk about, 'We're at war with Hitler—Nazi, Hitler, Nazi, Hitler'—and they hear orders," Kelly said. "Democrats are terrified right now. American communists are terrified right now. They are terrified because one of their pets took things too far, killed somebody who was beloved, and now the right is filled with a righteous anger, and we want communism snuffed out completely in this country, and the communists know it."
"They know that was probably too far; uh-oh, oopsie, we look bad, everyone knows we're demons," Kelly added. "Now is the time to purge them from our shores."
Kelly then fumed about Republicans like Sen. Katie Britt for calling for unity in the aftermath of Kirk's murder.
"No," Kelly said. "No peace with demons."
Seemingly unaware that calling your opponents communists and demons who must be snuffed out and purged from the country sounds a lot like the sort of dangerous rhetoric that he was supposedly decrying, Kelly then brought far-right broadcaster Steve Deace onto the program to further discuss the dangers of left-wing rhetoric.
This was particularly absurd given that Deace himself wrote a book about the COVID-19 pandemic called "Rise of the Fourth Reich" and once openly proclaimed that he wants to see anti-fascism activists "hanging from gallows in Trump ties."
Deace nevertheless had the gall to fume that the left is driven by "political sadism" and a fetish for the physical suffering of their opponents, which is acutely ironic given that, in 2022, Deace appeared on Kelley's program where he declared that Anthony Fauci is "America's Mengele" and therefore deserving of "Nuremberg-like punishments."
"I've got a fetish, Jesse, and it's for punishment!" Deace said then. "That's the fetish I have right now. When we send the kids to grandma's for date night, the wife sends me texts about punishing the people that did this for the last 29 months to put me in the mood."
Steve Deace decries the "political sadism" of the left in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, saying they have a fetish for the physical suffering of their opponents. Let's compare that to what Deace said about himself three years ago: "I've got a fetish, Jesse, and it's for… https://t.co/RdidZOToRj pic.twitter.com/hUCfN6guY4
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