Days after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, actress Jamie Lee Curtis appeared on the left-leaning podcast, “WTF with Marc Maron.”
Lovely name for a podcast, don’t you think?
Anyway, during the podcast, Curtis committed the unpardonable sin of expressing sympathy for Kirk and the family he left behind.
She said, “I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say, but I believe he was a man of faith, and I hope in that moment when he died, that he felt connected to his faith, even though his ideas were abhorrent to me.”
“I still believe he’s a father and a husband and a man of faith, and I hope whatever connection to God means that he felt it,” she continued.
Apparently, expressing sympathy for anyone who does not hold a secular view of the LGBTQIA+ community is just too much for many on the left. In fact, Curtis’ words caused such a stir that she felt compelled to clarify what she said.
She explained to Variety, “An excerpt of it mistranslated what I was saying as I wished him well — like I was talking about him in a very positive way, which I wasn’t; I was simply talking about his faith in God.”
That Curtis felt it necessary to qualify her sympathy is sad and pathetic, and serves to shine a light on the intolerance of the left, where it seems having sympathy for anyone with whom you disagree politically is unacceptable.
However, what Curtis said next is absolutely true, and a lesson for us all.
“In the binary world today,” she said, “you cannot hold two ideas at the same time: I cannot be Jewish and totally believe in Israel’s right to exist and at the same time reject the destruction of Gaza. You can’t say that, because you get vilified for having a mind that says, ‘I can hold both those thoughts.’”
For a lot of partisans, the idea that two ideas can be true at the same time is a difficult concept to grasp, which means for many on the left, suspending their hate for Kirk long enough to regret his assassination and to express compassion for his wife and daughter is an intellectual and emotional bridge too far.
In a recent Free Press article, Peter Savodnik writes, “Two days after Donald Trump thumped Kamala Harris in November 2024, Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton blamed his party’s loss, in no small part, on its obsession with transgender rights.”
“The Massachusetts congressman was immediately met with a tsunami of hate from the left — which only proved his point. They called him a Nazi. They said he should resign. Tufts University political science students were warned not to intern for him. They promised to primary him, and in July, a software engineer who identifies as ‘agender, trans, queer, and proudly Unitarian-Universalist’ jumped in the race.”
Moulton discovered the hard way that transgender rights had become a litmus test for the radical left.
Presently, there is another litmus test taking shape — the absolute requirement that all Democrats resist President Donald Trump. It doesn’t matter what Trump wants, Democratic officeholders must oppose him, even if what he wants benefits their constituents and is good for the country.
It is the reason the government is shut down at the moment.
All Democratic politicians are under threat: toe the line or face a primary challenge from the left.
Senator John Fetterman is one of only a handful of Democratic officeholders with the courage to stand up to his party’s radical left.
Fetterman told CNN, “It’s an absolute failure what occurred here for the last month, and now things are really going to land, and imagine being a parent with a couple kids, and how you’re going to fill their refrigerator and pack their lunches and get on with their lives when the things that they’ve depended on now is gone, because we can’t even agree to just open things up.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is the perfect example of a craven politician who has sold his soul to the far left. He doesn’t care who gets hurt by the shutdown. He’s afraid of being voted out of office, so the shutdown goes on.
Litmus tests are for the biddable, non-thinking sheep among us, individuals who need the political parties to do their thinking for them. In the binary world in which they live, there are no shades of grey, and nuanced arguments are simply not permitted.
Only Democrats can save themselves from the progressive zealots who have hijacked their party, but their leadership is no longer governed by principle. It is motivated by fear.
Ironically, it is not Republicans who fear the far left. It’s members of the far left’s own party. Mainstream Democrats made a Faustian bargain with the radicals in their party. They thought they could control the devil, but the devil has now turned on them.
Where have all the John Fettermans gone? Is he really the only Democrat left with a backbone?
Chris Roemer resides in Finksburg. He can be contacted at chrisroemer1960@gmail.com.
