The Reaction From the Online Left About the Suspect in Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Says Everything

They got him. Tyler Robinson was arrested in St. George, Utah, some 250 miles from Utah Valley University in Orem, where he’s suspected of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday. Kirk was shot and killed while answering questions from attendees. Robinson engraved some of the ammunition with slogans that are antifascist. The transgender claims turned out to be fruitless, though the Wall Street Journal ran with it before walking it back last night. Still, Robinson appears to be a radical. Trump was right about him. The radical Left is to blame for this awful act. Conservatives were right—and the Left is not taking it well.

We’re at a point where it’s safe to say the Left doesn’t comprehend anything anymore. I know you think it’s an evergreen thing to say, but there was a point where liberals could digest information; they would just be wrong with their conclusions. Now, because Robinson is white, comes from a law enforcement family, and supposedly a Republican, the Left is cheering. First, weird, that’s the initial reaction. Second, despite spewing all the ‘we don’t know motive’ stuff, they’re sure that those three facts line up. Third, the ‘Robinson’ person the lefty internet sleuths uncovered via voter registration isn’t the right guy. Also, there’s this thing called split households. The parents can be of one political persuasion, and the son not so much. 

The progressives keep circulating this as proof. In 2020, there were multiple Tyler Robinsons living in St. George, UT, but why question in the info when they want to avoid dealing with the assassin being on the left. Far easier for them to lie to themselves. https://t.co/Q9AtulvZDY

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) September 12, 2025

It is very weird to see so much energy on the left denying the assassin could be a progressive when it is also all progressive cheering on the assassination.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) September 12, 2025

Good grief. Progressives really can’t just acknowledge Charlie Kirk’s assassin was a progressive. They’re twisting every truth and fact to make the assassin a Trump supporter. They can’t acknowledge the violence festering on their own side.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) September 12, 2025

Also, what’s the play here, guys? Is the Left really saying that Robinson was such a Charlie Kirk fan…that he shot him? So, John Wilkes Booth loved Lincoln? What are you people smoking? Also, the grassy knoll antics regarding the engravings on the ammunition are so far off-base that it’s not even worth commenting on. 

Bullets had “hey fascist, catch” inscribed on them. And Kirk was assassinated. It’s not really hard to figure out where this is going unless you’re so addicted to whack job narratives that you’re willing to sacrifice truth and reason to make sure egos and feelings of self-righteousness aren’t damaged. 

This journey is posted below; maybe grab a drink or seven because some peak idiocy is exposed here:

Progressives are not handling it well that Trump was right and Kirk’s shooter was a radical leftist. They’re in denial.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) September 12, 2025

Eager to see the yarn & index card flow diagram for the “he assassinated Kirk because he liked and agreed with him” theory https://t.co/cofGrzZEKU

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 12, 2025

The lefties and media figures who insisted we wait until we know the motive are now open to acknowledging the motive and talking about it, right?

Or are they now switching to talking about banning guns, calling the motive “complex” and unknowable, and changing the subject?

— Sunny (@sunnyright) September 12, 2025

Yeah … the whole “fascist” thing was from a video game

No doubt pic.twitter.com/C5QYPL9wil

— Bill Speros (@billsperos) September 12, 2025

Extraordinary amount of misinformation circulating in left-wing media (he was not a registered Republican and he echoed left-wing rhetoric) pic.twitter.com/vWInVIPYo5

— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) September 12, 2025

Eager to see the yarn & index card flow diagram for the “he assassinated Kirk because he liked and agreed with him” theory https://t.co/cofGrzZEKU

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 12, 2025

2,600 retweets for a badly Photoshopped image https://t.co/EpzKrGgHgU pic.twitter.com/gjgp18RGoV

— Sunny (@sunnyright) September 12, 2025

This is just unbelievable.

The left is trying to re-write history in real time.

They’re in full denial mode that the killer was a leftist who thought Charlie Kirk is “full of hate” and a fascist. pic.twitter.com/Ier6q1BmXm

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 12, 2025

Democrats think every young white man in the US is a Trump supporter.

Actually hilarious when you think about it. https://t.co/oJ6IN5Enhi

— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) September 12, 2025

To anyone who needs to hear this: Tyler Robinson’s parents can be registered Republicans while he was affiliated with Antifa.

These two realities can coexist.

— Angela Belcamino (@AngelaBelcamino) September 12, 2025

BTW, notice it’s all these left-wingers who supposedly know for certain what all these references mean because they are so locked into the very same culture.

Yeah…well, what’s that tell you? https://t.co/oR7u2yi2oT

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 12, 2025

Brian Stelter apparently thinks he wrote “hey fascist! catch!” on a bullet casing and then put it in Charlie’s neck— ironically. pic.twitter.com/VByfDpL6IB

— Emma-Jo Morris (@EmmaJoNYC) September 12, 2025

This is not the same Tyler Robinson.

Will Adam correct? Of course, not. https://t.co/Yh4R5zfEqD

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 12, 2025

You mean the people who turned in their left-wing son for murder? https://t.co/kTHk7amjq4

— Sunny (@sunnyright) September 12, 2025

Maybe the person he shot might be a clue, I don’t know. https://t.co/23o8WZWX6v

— Eli Steinberg (@HaMeturgeman) September 12, 2025

Bingo.

They are claiming things that obviously aren’t true to avoid the most obvious explanation.

Charlie Kirk was not shot for not being “right-wing” enough. No one, not even the leftists pretending to, actually believe that. https://t.co/W2ZGSE2pOv

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 12, 2025

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