Returning to a topic he raised immediately after Kirk’s death on Sept. 10, Rogan brought up the topic again on his Nov. 11 show with Brian Redman, a frequent guest and former producer.
“Charlie Kirk gets shot and people are celebrating,” Rogan told his audience. “Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You want people to die that you disagree with?”
Rogan’s question was more or less a rhetorical question since AFN previously reported many people celebrated Kirk’s death. In social media posts, news of Kirk’s death was like Hitler himself was no longer breathing rather than a young man who had welcomed face-to-face debates with his political opponents on college and university campuses.
In comments posted to X, Facebook, and TikTok after Kirk’s murder, references to Nazis and fascism were a common theme. That theme comes from Democrats in public office, and in the news media, who routinely compare their political enemies to the fascist Third Reich.
A recent story by left-wing website Truthout, for example, published Oct. 3, describes a dangerous, racist, Hitler-sounding Trump who is threatening to arrest "progressives." The same story also dismissed "supposedly hateful rhetoric" aimed at Kirk, even though there are numerous examples online.
Another theme in the posts was Kirk's murder was justified because he “spewed hatred” or he was “reaping what he sowed.” A school board member in Oregon made the comment about hatred on Facebook. A former Cornell University professor made the comment about reaping and sowing in a post on X.
Using a 1-10 scale for a future civil war, Rogan said he typically sets that number at 4 or 5 but, after Kirk’s assassination, it’s more like “step 7” on the way to what Rogan called a “bona fide civil war.
Asked if he agrees with Rogan’s alarming prediction, Colorado-based talk show host Richard Randall told AFN he disagrees with it. Even though political violence is being justified by Left, Randall doesn’t believe either side wants a violent, bloody civil war.
“I don't think that there is a civil war coming,” Randall predicted. “I think it's just almost dangerous speculation, to be honest with you.”
Regarding that 1 to 10 scale posed by Rogan, Randall said it's more like 4 or below right now.
Washington Times columnist Robert Knight, also a longtime conservative activist, took a similar stance when asked about Rogan’s dire prediction.
"We've been in a cultural Cold War since the 1960s,” he allowed, “with the Left redefining Marxism as 'social justice’ and bending most major institutions toward the task of eradicating America's Christian-based values, especially the ones upholding normal sexuality, marriage, and family.”
However, even with a left-wing culture that condones violence and celebrated Kirk’s murder, Knight said a repeat of the 1860s is unlikely. That’s because the country is not the same as it was back then when two distinctive regions went to war over who gets to define freedom and human liberty.
“Today,” he said, “the political and cultural divide cuts across communities all over the country.”
Will that divide spark a civil war? “I don’t think so,” he said.
