His death is already sparking comparisons on the right to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

“This is a War,” Turning Point Action COO Tyler Bowyer posted on X, later adding on Bannon’s War Room: “The anger you feel right now must turn into activism.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who previously worked for Turning Point USA, posted: “We are not murdering people. Leftists are. We are re-living the 60s. The tides have turned. Examples need to be made. Their hate will be their downfall.”

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    7 days ago

    “We are not murdering people, leftists are.”

    ORLY?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_shootings_of_Minnesota_legislators

    “Boelter was registered to vote in Oklahoma as a Republican for the 2004 United States presidential election, though on a state document in 2019, Boelter wrote that he had “no party preference”.[8] A longtime Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, resident who knew Boelter as a fourth-grade student in his childhood town since 1976, told reporters he was stunned to learn that Boelter is a suspect in the attacks. He described Boelter as “a conservative who voted for President Donald Trump and was strongly against abortion rights””