From One Leftist False Kirk Narrative To the Next
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) September 19, 2025
Somewhere in the leftwing command bunker, false narratives about Kirk’s murder, replete with talking points, are issued and disseminated through the network news, social media, Hollywood, and academia—at least until their…
Somewhere in the leftwing command bunker, false narratives about Kirk’s murder, replete with talking points, are issued and disseminated through the network news, social media, Hollywood, and academia—at least until their party-line absurdity demands a new concoction.
Here are the daily, changing leftist narratives over the past few days:
#1 “No Motive” Following the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk, we were told the shooter was deranged. There was supposedly no apparent motive—even as family members were already remarking on Tyler Robinson’s furor over Charlie Kirk and the shooter’s increasing hard-left views.
No matter: mental health was the culprit and by association we as a nation were culpable for not addressing it—and dare not blame anyone or anything.
#2 “The Gun Did It” Then more facts came out and when the motiveless killer version collapsed, narrative two followed that “the gun did it”.
Calls for new gun control legislation mounted. And the sicker Left talked of “irony” at best and at worst “karma” that the 2nd-Amendment defender Kirk was killed by a gun.
Jasmine Crockett weighed in with her accustomed racist ignorance about “assault” rifles and how only a trained right-winger could hit a target at 140 yards.
When it was revealed that rifles, and specifically bolt action rifles, are responsible for less than 2 percent of annual murders, or hitting a target with a scoped 30.06 bolt action rifle does not necessarily require a great deal of skill, the narrative of using Kirk’s death to ban guns fizzled out.
In truth, there are some 500,000 million guns currently circulating among the U.S. population and the Left has not told us how they would round them—or their owners—up.
#3 “The Assassin Was MAGA” Narrative three then was floated that MAGA right wingers did it, or white supremacist gangs, or a veritable civil war on the right were responsible.
Jimmy Kimmel finally lost his job over spreading that preposterous lie. Robinson’s engraved messaged bullets, his texts, his friends, his family, the nature of his boy-girlfriend relationship, and his chat group all proved beyond a doubt he hated Kirk for his influence and politics, and thus committed a leftwing political shooting of a conservative in the fashion of a Luigi Mangione or James Hodkinson.
#4 “Both Sides” Narrative four was quickly substituted: “both sides" were now responsible for the assassination. That lie lasted about a day, once lists appeared of the political motivations of recent ideological killings. They showed overwhelmingly right-wing targets and left-wing shooters/killers. Unfortunately, many on the Left could not keep still and smother their glee. So an unhinged array of students, bureaucrats, teachers, professors, the media, and actors—the usual suspects—started posting their accustomed delight over the killing of Kirk. Thus, narrative four evaporated, given the nutty Left’s glee over Kirk’s death was near synonymous with one of their own killing him.
#5 “Trump Did it” As narratives imploded thick and fast, the Left next claimed that Trump’s ‘hate speech’ and divisiveness caused Robinson to kill. In other words, this new ‘Trump did it’ narrative dispensed with the prior leftist failed ones, by claiming there was now a new motive indeed, and it was the solitary Trump.
But that attempt sputtered almost immediately, given the reactive Trump was first targeted by four lawfare partisan prosecutors, 2 failed assassination attempts, ballot removal, and smeared as a fascist by high-ranking generals, Kamala Harris, and most of the Democratic Party. So he might have had some reason to talk back, given the Left sought to rerail his 2016 candidacy, sabotage his first term, and destroy him (literally) after 2020.
As part of the narrative, Trump supporters were derided as “chumps”, “dregs”, “semi-fascists”, and “garbage” by Joe Biden, who boasted twice he wanted to beat up Trump behind the gym, put a bullseye on him ("time to put Trump in a bullseye"), and jail him (“we gotta lock him up!”). Did Joe then incite the violence?
Barack Obama emerged from one of his many mansions to squeak up the ‘Trump did it’ narrative. But the community organizer who said, “get in their faces”, “bring a gun to a knife fight”, and sicced his intelligence agencies on Trump to destroy his campaign, transition, and early presidency faded fast.
So, sermon finished, Pastor Obama quietly private jetted back to either his Martha’s Vineyard acreage or his Hawaiian beach estate.
At that point, it seemed there could be no more crazy narratives. But in fact there were more.
#6 “A Love Story” Next a Montel Williams and ABC’s Matt Gutman did their best to redefine the political assassination as a gay/trans love story, a sort of updated Ryan O’Neal-Ali McGraw beautiful. but tragic romance. Emotion and love killed Kirk, not evil.
Who would have known that the cold-bloodied assassin who just murdered a young father and husband called his trans lover “my love”!
But that fable too required a suspension of disbelief by turning the cold-blooded killer into some sort of courtly lover, or Elizabethan poet (and in the case of Gutman fabricating quotes that were not in the two’s already sick enough texts).
Indeed, the more the texts were released, the more the public concluded not that they were not Apollo and Hyacinth. Instead, Robinson proved himself a cruel and crude murderer. And his lover? He is emerging as someone who knew a lot more, before and after Kirk’s murder, than he let on to police.
#7 “He Kinda, Sorta Deserved It” An exasperated Left, after seeing all of their narratives implode, finally shrugged and defiantly has sent out the last version that best reflected its own.
The new narrative? Why should the Left be apologetic or deferential at all? It will damn Kirk and see what conservatives are going to do about it.
So after the de rigueur acknowledgment about the abhorrence of murdering anyone—the Left now cuts to the quick and pontificate, euphemistically, about Kirk bringing it on himself.
The new narrative has the Left openly admitting they despised Kirk’s (mostly undefined) views. And while they did not approve of his murder, per se, they sorta, sorta understood that his type of “divisive” rhetoric was, well, bound at some point to inflame and excite those who were ‘morally’ bothered by his ‘hate’.
In the aftermath of his gruesome assassination, the new narrative says it maybe kinda, sorta of wrong for the Left to imply Kirk earned his death. But nevertheless, it was sorta, kinda true—and by implication the leftwing world is better off for his passing.
That final sick narrative, distilled from all the other failed ones, will more or less now be institutionalized as the authentic Left party-line as the months wear on.
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