These people who go around shooting people and calling them fascists are so ignorant they don't even know what the fascists were doing. Charlie Kirk went around talking to people, trying to convince them. Fascists don't do that. Fascists shoot people. So it's the person who kills him, thinking he's a fascist, who is himself the fascist, the opposite of the man he's murdering.
— Thomas Sowell, Uncommon Knowledge: The Price of Bad Ideas (Robinson) (2025)
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