
And, to continue the sentence in the headline, you should feel better that such a satire would be too unmoored to the current reality to justify writing. You have every reason to hate the current reality of American politics and government where we fell just a few hundred thousand votes short of our terribly shitty president being in prison for the rest of his life, yes. But you would have so many more reasons to hate it if “Trump killed Charlie Kirk to justify a massive, sweeping crackdown on civil liberties,” was the headline and the parody of the usual MAGA conspiracy shit was just a grim way of saving face against a dark, bottomless onslaught into a full-on permanent Trump autocracy.
Here and now, that satire simply isn’t going to hold up because, as the last 365 days have proven, the Trump regime is just too goddamned feckless and incompetent to capitalize on Kirk’s death in ways that even this website expected more vigor from them. What happened to dropping the hammer on Antifa, put James Comey behind bars, take Jimmy Kimmel off the air permanently, destroy the Southern Poverty Law Center, appropriate George Soros’s billions and distribute them to shell companies owned by Kirk’s allies, redraw Indiana’s congressional districts to squash two safe Dem seats, successfully firing public college professors for their anti-Kirk Facebook posts without consequences like millions in taxpayer-funded judgments and reinstatement eight months later?