Apologizing is forbidden
Charlie Kirk suspect doesn't fit Trump's dangerous narrative:
... now that the Kirk shooting suspect doesn't appear to be a radical left lunatic, what are those narrative creators supposed to do? Apologize? That seems to be forbidden in MAGA circles.
It seems in lieu of an apology, we’ll get a sudden shift in tone.
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina gave a solid demonstration of how to do that. Responding earlier in the week to wholly unfounded early rumors that the bullet casings had pro-transgender messages on them, Mace railed against “lunatic trannies” and said definitively that a “raging leftist lunatic put a bullet through" Kirk’s neck.
When the suspect was revealed to not be exactly what Mace was convinced he’d be, she posted on social media: “We know Charlie Kirk would want us to pray for such an evil and lost individual like Tyler Robinson to find Jesus Christ. We will try to do the same.”
Got it. The suspected shooter is a seemingly average White kid from a Republican family and doesn’t fit neatly into my desired political narrative, so I will pray for him and await another opportunity to declare war on all liberals.
They didn’t want justice; they wanted a narrative. Now they’ll hopefully get justice, but without the neat-and-tidy anti-liberal story they desired.