‘It’s wrong. We cannot continue like this.’
U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds[1] is concerned for his own safety in the wake of last week’s assassination of conservative thought leader Charlie Kirk[2].
“My wife is very concerned, my kids are concerned. Everybody is shaking in this moment. And we can’t be the more perfect union, we can’t be the United States of America, if elected officials and other prominent people in our society now feel threatened,” the Naples Republican said on “Varney and Co[3].“
“Now they have to hire up these massive security apparatuses just so they can continue to exercise their free speech in the United States. We need to change. It’s wrong. We cannot continue like this.”
Donalds, a candidate for Governor, blamed the “radical left” for coarsening discourse.
He argued “there is a disdain or a dehumanization of people on the right, simply because they have strong disagreements with the radical left. And I think that the radical left’s view has been that their ideas are in the mainstream,” despite election results proving the contrary.
“What has become clear is that on the radical left, they now view violence as okay, or they laugh at it, or they smirk at it,” he said during Monday’s segment.
“And that’s just flat out disgusting. It’s wrong.”
While Donalds argued that “robust debates” are necessary, he contended the other side is ideologically ill-disposed for the dialogue conservatives seek.
“I think that a lot of this is really being fomented on the political left because they really don’t value life anyway, whether it’s in the womb or walking the planet,” he said.
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References
- ^ Byron Donalds (Donalds.house.gov)
- ^ Charlie Kirk (floridapolitics.com)
- ^ Varney and Co (www.youtube.com)