Overview

• Speaking on the House floor Thursday, Rep. Bob Onder said some on the American left are well-meaning but that their ideology is “pure evil.”
• Onder asserted that leftists “will kill those with whom they disagree,” comparing them to Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Pol Pot, and Fidel Castro.
• His remarks followed the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during a Utah college event the previous day.
• A shortened clip of the speech circulated widely on X, drawing rebukes from users who called the rhetoric “really ugly.”
• President Trump, in an Oval Office address, targeted the “radical left,” saying people who labeled Kirk a Nazi are “directly responsible for the terrorism” occurring in the country, as some right-wing commentators urged vengeance.