The Australian: The real take-out of the Charlie Kirk tragedy? An emboldened President Trump

From The Australian:

Tom Fitton, the conservative president of right-wing legal advocacy group Judicial Watch who has served as a staunch ally and informal adviser to Trump, tells Inquirer there was only one man elected by the entire country.

“It’s the President of the United States,” he says. “The effort to restore democratic control of these federal agencies is historic. It’s the opposite of authoritarianism. It’s the opposite of strongmanism. He’s elected … We should be concerned if there isn’t political control of these agencies. “Republicans were naive for decades as to the loss of that control. And the President, he’s not blind to it, which is a great development. Whenever you hear this language that an agency is independent, Republicans … should get their gander up about it.” Furthermore, Trump’s pledge to target left-wing organisations in the wake of Kirk’s assassination is not only correct and prudent, it also is essential to ensure the health of the American experiment into the future. The survival of the country is on the line. Fitton warns “there is a rising violent leftist cadre and mounting left-wing NGOs, activists and so on, that are pushing for the end of America as we know it, both constitutionally speaking and in terms of rights under law.

“We’re just going to see more violence and more attempts to undermine the American way – in a way that may end the republic.” While America is going through a period “comparable to the assassinations of the 60s”, there are “opportunities for a robust defence of the rule of law and a more sophisticated and government-wide focus on … these woke, anarcho-antifa groups and their supporters that traffic in violence”. “We have to understand that and how they are organised,” Fitton says. “The government has got to take the threat seriously. It’s the restoration of democracy.” He warns the free speech debate had been debased to whether conservatives can make basic statements of public policy “without fear of being murdered”, while leftists want to “support murder and advocate violence against political opponents”.

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