Ask anyone for a shortlist of people on the right who might be murdered for their politics completely out of the blue and Matt Walsh would have been way ahead of Kirk on every metric.
Yup, basically think any "controversial" figure, big or relatively small, and they were on the list before Charlie Kirk. Tucker and Candace must be way high up on the leftist hit list. Tommy Robinson in the UK. Alex Jones. Nick Fuentes. Even people who aren't nearly as relevant anymore, like Milo, or shit disturbers like Richard Spencer. Jared Taylor. Heck, there are VTubers on the list before Charlie Kirk. As well as just meme accounts.
Charlie Kirk was big and influential, and certainly drew his share of vitriol, but when it actually came to pissing people off enough for a lunatic to kill them, he was nowhere near the top of the list.
Yup, basically think any "controversial" figure, big or relatively small, and they were on the list before Charlie Kirk. Tucker and Candace must be way high up on the leftist hit list. Tommy Robinson in the UK. Alex Jones. Nick Fuentes. Even people who aren't nearly as relevant anymore, like Milo, or shit disturbers like Richard Spencer. Jared Taylor. Heck, there are VTubers on the list before Charlie Kirk. As well as just meme accounts.
Charlie Kirk was big and influential, and certainly drew his share of vitriol, but when it actually came to pissing people off enough for a lunatic to kill them, he was nowhere near the top of the list.
Fuentes is pretty irrelevant outside his fanbase. Some conservatives might even be a little happy to no longer have to deal with him.
Someone's already tried to kill Fuentes once.
And he gets leftists in a tizzy. Like I said, the controversial people make likely targets. Even if they're not as mainstream.
But it's not always them. Benny Johnson was also attacked, and he's just pretty standard Con Inc., as far as I'm aware.