Now it looks like I was engaging in wishful thinking that Gov. Cox was a GOP good guy. It looks like Cox has jumped on the Trump train calling Kirk's killer a leftist. He called for calm and reason and then used the L-Word.

Wishful thinking bit me in the butt. After I  praised Gov. Spencer Cox in my early morning Substack I began to read news reports like this:

Here’s more:

From the subscription Washington Post:

Cox is saying that Robinson had a “leftist ideology.” He has taken it on himself to promote the Trump and MAGA propaganda that he was a radical-left lunatic without using the words radical and lunatic. He’s only paying lip service to the ambiguity of what we know so far about him. 

MAGA lives in a wastland where no nuance is allowed:

Everything must be dumbed down. Complexity confuses.

The fact is that the exact motive for the shooting of Charlie Kirk has not yet been confirmed. In fact the exact motive may never be confirmed. Even if Robinson eventually states what his motive was this may be either fabricated or what he wants to believe it was. What he says may be a combination of the two.

His motivation lies within his psychology. To make a reasonably educated guess would require him to be assessed in person by mental health professionals who are adept at dealing with patients who may be in denial.

For all we know Robinson may have a serious psychiatric disorder.

I can only surmise that Gov. Cox was under pressure to jump on the Trump train which he succumbed to by describing Robinson as having leftist ideology.

Here’s my morning Substack:

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