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To the editor:
According to investigators, Tyler Robinson engraved on his bullets the words "Hey Fascist! Catch!" As I read the many times Democratic leaders have called Trump a fascist I look at what calling a person a hateful name can do. Murdering a gifted father like Charlie Kirk with two small children is what calling people hateful names can do.
Among those who used the fascist name on Trump are Kamala Harris, Biden, Schumer, Newsom, Jeffries, Walz and AOC. Very interestingly Sanders refused to call Trump a fascist but rather an authoritarian. Democrats often call conservatives fascists. It's a negative word since Mussolini was so labeled prior to World War II and it incites the ignorant and the lunatic fringe.
Fascism is defined as government that combines public and private sectors to achieve a strong executive control of a country. With almost 50% of Congress consisting of Democrats who block everything possible, Trump lives in a democracy with limitations set by Congress and the Supreme Court. Whomever ran the White House the last four years dictated America's direction on oil production contrary to capitalism, open borders contrary to American law, debt balloons contrary to financial management, and even to severe COVID rules to the extent of preventing church worship and education contrary to the constitution. Is that not executive control of a country? Would fascism be an appropriate label for Biden?
Stephen King, the famous horror author, was quoted as saying, "He (Charlie Kirk) advocated stoning gays to death. Just sayin'." Stephen was immediately confronted by a host of people on both sides of the isle for his abhorrently wrong statement. He promptly did some research and found he had read this from a source that was wrong. He apologized many times but the damage was done.
A reporter on MSNBC stated that the murder wasn't all bad because Kirk's words were divisive. The reporter's words were a very divisive statement ironically! I heard he was fired.
As many realize, the most effective way to make an argument worse is to use hateful names. The Democrats seem to be using that as an election strategy and that strategy is easily accepted by a radical person with no morals. Where will this lead? More killings? Certainly people on the conservative side are angry beyond what one can imagine. Will some conservative leaning lunatic do a Tyler Robinson on some liberal leader? If it does you can chalk up another murder to the fascist name calling. That is what happens in a war and we are escalating to that.
Both sides should argue what would make America better rather than attacking the other with hateful names that will motivate lunatics to perform anti-American acts. Remember lunacy is contagious.
John Benedict
Cape Coral