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Hardworking Americans woke up to a gutting story out of Los Angeles this week: legendary filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found stabbed to death and their son has been arrested in the case. This is a family tragedy first and foremost, and the facts reported by prosecutors — the arrests and the horrific nature of the crime — should dominate our attention as police and courts do their work.
Within hours the political circus descended, and President Trump responded on his social platform with a blistering post blaming what he called “Trump Derangement Syndrome” for the poisonous climate that surrounds figures like Reiner. Many in the media portrayed his post as crass and callous, and the president publicly doubled down when questioned — a combustible mix of personal grievance and political theater at a moment when families are grieving.
That reaction predictably drew rebukes from across the spectrum, including conservative voices who said the president’s timing was wrong and urged better judgment; this is not blind loyalty, it is about the right way to defend our values without giving the left another moral excuse. Republicans and commentators alike flagged the mistake, reminding patriots that strength requires wisdom and restraint when real people are suffering.
Glenn Beck — who has long been willing to call out both left and right excesses — told his audience that he thinks Mr. Trump’s instinct about TDS is understandable but that the post was “not a good move,” and he referenced personal meetings with the president to explain why Trump reacts so ferociously to what he sees as sustained, irrational attacks. Beck’s take matters because he knows both the man and the media ecosystem that drives this contempt.
Let’s be clear: the outrage machine on the left and in Hollywood has spent years weaponizing cruelty and falsehoods, and Reiner himself was an outspoken critic of the president whose rhetoric helped fuel the political hatred Trump condemns. That does not justify opportunistic mockery of a murdered man, but it does remind decent patriots that the culture war has consequences — and that Hollywood’s virtue-signaling cannot hide the raw partisanship that poisons public life.
So where do we land? We demand justice for the Reiner family and decency in public discourse. We also demand that conservative leaders hold themselves to higher standards of decorum while not surrendering the truth about how corrosive anti-Trump mania has become. Call out the left’s hypocrisy, defend the rule of law for victims and families, and when the president missteps, tell him plainly — like Glenn Beck did — so the movement stays strong, principled, and unshakably American.
