Purely from a hypothetical strategic standpoint: Kirk was one of the young household names being groomed to take the mantle of the angry, populist, old white regressive in the future.
A lot of the current generation are decrepit mummies and could drop dead at any minute, and building gravity for successors takes time. Kirk was also a relative outsider as a cheerleader, keeping the taint of disastrous administration off him.
Retribution is coming either way so you could argue the worst assassination attempt outcome would be giving him a bloody ear and a killer photo op. In that context it’s a decent longterm outcome for the violent opposition wing.
Of course we’ll have to see how the shooter motives and responses play out, nobody really knows.
Also from a tactical standpoint he was a young and influential merchant of hate. He’d inspired fascist propagandists. His death will make some potential ones hesitate.
People on the left will die for this, but they were going to start killing us anyways.
Purely from a hypothetical strategic standpoint: Kirk was one of the young household names being groomed to take the mantle of the angry, populist, old white regressive in the future.
A lot of the current generation are decrepit mummies and could drop dead at any minute, and building gravity for successors takes time. Kirk was also a relative outsider as a cheerleader, keeping the taint of disastrous administration off him.
Retribution is coming either way so you could argue the worst assassination attempt outcome would be giving him a bloody ear and a killer photo op. In that context it’s a decent longterm outcome for the violent opposition wing.
Of course we’ll have to see how the shooter motives and responses play out, nobody really knows.
Also from a tactical standpoint he was a young and influential merchant of hate. He’d inspired fascist propagandists. His death will make some potential ones hesitate.
People on the left will die for this, but they were going to start killing us anyways.