Bernie Sanders on the political assassination of Charlie Kirk:
"Political violence, in fact, is political cowardice."
"It means you cannot convince people of the correctness of your ideas, & you have to impose them by force."
"Let me hammer something home. I am sick and I am tired of hearing people say, like Barack Obama did, like Hillary Clinton did, 'oh, we condemn this violence'."
"Guess what? You can't call the President of the United States for ten years Adolph Hitler, and you can't say that he's a fascist dictator, and you can't say that anyone who voted for Trump or advocated for him... are Nazis..."
"And then when someone tries to kill us, you can't suddenly say, 'oh, we condemn this violence'."
"You caused it... when you tell people that someone is Hitler, you are telling crazy people 'go k*ll them'!"
@ClayTravis has got this exactly right. You can't engage in non-stop character assassination without expecting there will be political assassination.
You cannot call your political adversaries Nazi fascists and modern day Hitlers and then say political violence is wrong when your deranged lunatic supporters act on your statements and kill or attempt to kill the people youโve attacked. I will not accept it. No one should.