Whenever someone in speaking on a program or writing in an opinion piece and it comes to an actual or attempted assassination, the speaker or writer always has to add, “The rhetoric comes from both sides. Congratulations. The writer or speaker has proven their bonafides. AND, simultaneously gaslighted the Right. In less than fifteen months we have seen this up close and personal with the attempted political assassination of Donald Trump and the actual philosophical one of Charlie Kirk. Sorry, no. We are not the same.