The sight of leftist protesters openly celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk was grotesque and un-American, and Megyn Kelly was right to call them out with bluntness few other voices have the courage to use. On her show she excoriated the ghoulish behavior and told those reveling in political violence in no uncertain terms to go fuck themselves, speaking for millions of Americans who are outraged by this moral rot.
Kirk’s killing at a university speaking event shocked the nation and provoked real grief across the conservative movement, making the celebratory reactions all the more abhorrent to decent people. Broadcasters and commentators, including Megyn Kelly, covered the heartbreak and the ugly aftermath as the country tried to reckon with how political discourse metastasized into murderous violence.
The federal response has rightly been firm: the State Department publicly revoked visas of foreign nationals who posted celebratory comments online, and multiple government employees who cheered the killing have faced investigations and consequences. This is not about silencing dissent; it is about refusing to tolerate people who normalize or praise the murder of an American in the public square.
Yet the predictable chorus from the coastal elites has been to whine about free speech while turning a blind eye to the cultural cancer that produces this behavior. The same people who lecture us on tolerance and civility are too often the ones who excuse or even celebrate violence when it targets conservatives, and that hypocrisy must be exposed and punished.
Megyn Kelly’s fury was not mere theatrics; it was the voice of a country tired of moral cowardice. Conservatives should not shrink from calling out depravity when we see it, and we should demand that platforms, universities, and employers act decisively against those who cheer political murder.
Hardworking Americans want a return to common decency, law and order, and simple fairness in how speech is treated — equal justice, not selective immunity for the so-called righteous. If our leaders and institutions will not hold celebrants of violence accountable, then voters must, and we must elevate voices that defend the sanctity of life, the rule of law, and the liberty of all Americans.