Trying to bridge the MAGA outrage over Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the empty paeans to peace, Utah Gov Spencer Cox on Sunday admitted to CNN’s Dana Bash that “Charlie said some very inflammatory things” but then add that “and in some corners of the web that’s all that people have heard.” Hitler’s secretaries also regarded him as a kind and warm boss. Even when they admitted and fully accepted the reality of the horrors of the Holocaust in interviews, his staffers would say that, to them, personally, Hitler was nothing but a sweet, caring uncle figure to them.

“OMG NATIONAL ZERO MUST BE SHUT DOWN AND SPARTAN EXECUTED FOR COMPARING CHARLIE KIRK TO HITLER!!!!111!!!” Fuck off, MAGA trolls. Repeatedly since Wednesday so many non-MAGA journalists and podcasters who had interacted with Kirk personally said he was an unfailingly polite and nice guy too – while being upfront about the very inflammatory shit that Kirk said publicly.

And that Cox is futilely trying to square the circle on here. Who gives a fuck if Kirk occasionally brought positive energy to his roadshow to say shit like that MSNBC host Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, former Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson “do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot… Very obvious you are not smart enough to be able to get it on your own.”

More to come on that “legacy,” but here’s some live action for now:

Keep it tuned here as it gets worse before it gets even more worse.