Democratic Senator Warns Of Campaign To Crush Dissent In Wake Of Charlie Kirk's Death

Source: Huff Post

Sep 15, 2025, 10:54 AM EDT


WASHINGTON ― A prominent Senate Democrat is warning that President Donald Trump will use the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a pretext to crush his political opposition.

“The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) wrote in the first of a series of social media posts on Sunday.

Murphy pointed to Deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller, saying, “We have to dismantle and take on the radical left organizations in this country that are fomenting violence,” and Laura Loomer, an informal White House advisor, saying she wants the administration’s enemies locked up and silenced.

“I’ve had enough of the Left only thinking we will defund them, prosecute them, lock them up and dismantle their power for generations to come,” Loomer wrote. Loomer is one of many prominent voices in the MAGA movement who have called for an all-out crackdown on the left in the wake of the shooting.

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