Let’s take the example of self-defense, in civilian life or in war. I don’t think the person I’m shooting deserves to be killed. If need be I suppose I would kill them out of self-preservation, but still not because they deserve to die.
In a political assassination attempt I think there is generally an idea in the mind of the perpetrator that the target deserves to die.
That's quite the mash up of beliefs...
I didn't mean to focus just on Rogan. He's just one in a long lineup of podcasters and pundits (many, but not all MAGA-linked) who have long been claiming the Butler PA shooting was staged.
The Google machine in about 10 seconds gives me Joe Kent and Candace Owens on Tucker Carlson’s show, MTG, QAnon nutter MJ Truth, 2020 stop the steal organizer Ali Alexander. Give it 5 minutes and the list is longer I am sure
one article discussing it:
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
@scam-likely Just stay the wokest woke who has ever woked! Let's goooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Sounds familiar:https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/whcd-assassin-motives-shooter-beliefs-maga.html
In other words, leaving aside the manifesto in which he lambasted Trump as a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor,” Allen’s public-facing words fall well within mainline Democratic boundaries. He referred to the president as a “sociopathic mob boss,” and said that by negotiating with Republicans, Democrats were engaging in “bipartisanship with Nazis.” That might’ve sounded extreme in 2013, but it doesn’t anymore because, quite frankly, I can find the exact same sentiment in the comments of my mom’s Facebook page. If Allen possesses a cogent political philosophy, it appears to be that of by-the-book mainstream liberalism. From what I can tell, there isn’t much daylight between him and the shared consensus of the MS NOW commentariat, who have never been afraid to draw comparisons between Democratic socialism and Trump’s nativist tide.
After all, mainstream liberals are quick to declare MAGA evil, or assert that Trump is destroying America. Allen, from what I can tell, was not advocating for social revolution, or a total inversion of the market economy, or the consecration of a Marxist state. No, he just really hated Trump, and, in a fit of madness, decided to infuse that hate with terroristic purpose. It is there, and only there, where he breaks with the tenor of a #NoKings rally.