Kirk is being posthumously celebrated by much of the mainstream press as a noble sparring partner for center-left politicians and pundits. Meanwhile, the very real, very negative, and sometimes violent impacts of his rhetoric and his political projects are being glossed over or ignored entirely.
He wasn’t practicing politics at all. Hate speech isn’t politics.
Right?
He wasn’t even a politician. He was a glorified podcaster.
All he was doing was being a little shit, stirring the flame.
Just a troll.