MAGA Calls For Vengeance Following Charlie Kirk’s Killing — Huffington Post
Trump, his stooges, lapdogs, and sycophants—along with Watters and Fox—have long trafficked in lies and hate speech, all for votes, profits, and ratings. A few years back, they peddled the poisonous myth of an “invasion” of Mexicans and Brown people.
That lie didn’t emerge from thin air. In 2019, Patrick Wood Crusius swallowed it whole, walked into an El Paso Walmart armed with a rifle, and murdered 23 people because he believed he was defending Texas from a so-called Mexican “invasion.”
But the script he repeated came from above.
Trump bellowed “This is an invasion” from the White House lawn to campaign stages, turning migrants into enemy combatants. Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick echoed him from Austin, stamping “invasion” into official Texas letters. Kristi Noem stood before Congress and branded the border a “war zone.” Lou Dobbs, night after night on Fox, sneered about an “illegal alien invasion,” pumping venom into millions of homes.
Crusius didn’t invent this hate. He acted it out with bullets. The blood in El Paso stains not only his hands but every demagogue who weaponized the word “invasion” for political points and television profits.
The Legacy of the El Paso Shooting
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Opinion: El Paso’s mass shooting is proof of the impact of words. Trump and Republicans don’t care — El Paso Matters
In politics, words are not just words — they are tools, weapons and blueprints. When President Trump and other elected leaders refer to immigration at the southern border as an “invasion,” they are not merely using metaphor, but creating an ideological battleground in which violence becomes not only justifiable to some, but necessary.
