The past week in America has been one of the ugliest and most vitriolic I can recall.

Since the unconscionable assassination of Charlie Kirk, I have seen and heard things I never would have imagined just a few years ago – and from people I expected much better of at that.

These days have been very telling indeed.

On one hand, from some there has been positive glee at the very public murder of this man, a husband and father of two – and, most importantly, a human being who never deserved such a horrible fate.

These celebrations are contemptible – and, no, they cannot be justified, no matter anyone’s feelings about his rhetoric.

On the other hand, however, I have seen a side of people I never expected on the right, including some I know personally, that I could not have imagined shared the beliefs of Turning Point.

I am seeing more and more anger and sweeping generalizations of “the left” and what needs to be done with “them.”

Aided and encouraged by the White House, and the Vice President in particular, there are witch hunts for anyone who *dared* speak against Charlie Kirk at the time of his death, reporting them to their employers, costing them their jobs – For. Their. Words.

I have several things to say to this:

1. People are *still* allowed to speak freely – even if others don’t like it here in Trump’s America – and I expect that there is going to be a great deal of legal liability for all of this hunting when all is said and done.
2. Again, while people have the right to speak freely as long as they aren’t threatening anyone, I agree that it was disgraceful for people to celebrate Kirk’s death. Still, you know, as the days have passed, rather than the fire slowly burning down, the outrage mob has gotten worse – now hunting people at their jobs simply for saying they weren’t mourning Kirk because of the things he stood for in life. That’s right: now you should be unemployed and ostracized simply for disagreeing with Turning Point.
3. Kirk was a political figure, not a religious one, and the word “martyr” is being used in a wildly inappropriate manner.
4. It is sickening that Kirk has been given honors – like flags at half staff nationally – that were not given to Melissa Hortman and her husband, even though they and their dog were assassinated while she was a sitting State Senator. Hell, when asked about it on Monday, DJT did not seem to know Who. They. Were. It’s revolting.

Along with all the other alarming developments in the current administration recently – the response to Ukraine and Gaza, the ongoing tariff debacles, the deeply disturbing ICE situation, National Guard deployments in more American cities, and, of course, the Epstein list – I can’t help but feel that the gap between those that have so fiercely run to defend this Administration – and are now defending all things Turning Point – and those of us who see the world from a very different lens has widened to a point where I don’t know what can possibly bridge it.

Again, this week has been brutally telling.

Be well, everybody. Take care of yourselves and each other.

Grace and Blessings.