A grieving movement just watched a state lawmaker pour gasoline on the fire. Instead of condemning political violence, a Democrat aimed her outrage at the victim and the millions who shared his beliefs.

Democratic West Virginia State Rep. Anitra L. Hamilton took to social media less than 24 hours after Charlie Kirk’s killing, accusing the Turning Point USA founder of “spewing racism” and “discrimination.” She went further, drawing a comparison between Kirk’s successful conservative activism and the man who recently murdered a young Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte light rail train.

“You can murder ONE woman on a train by stabbing her in the neck and be condemned by the masses or you can travel the nation spewing hatred and racism, harming thousands and be loved by the masses…… and both have the same outcome,” Hamilton wrote on Facebook.

“You can profess Jesus, tweet about Him, and talk about Him in your speeches and yet be a racist,” the elected official added in the post. Kirk was a devout Christian who often quoted scripture.

Hamilton doubled down in another post that same day. “Speaking words of a racist nature is not your First Amendment right but are acts of domestic terrorism upon the souls of American people. There are no skillsets that can prepare you or protect you from RACISM,” she wrote.

The comparison drew a bright line for Republicans. West Virginia Republican Rep. Riley Moore, who represents the entire area that includes Hamilton’s district at the federal level, called for her expulsion from the state legislature for “disgusting and shameful behavior.” He also urged West Virginia University to fire her from its Council for Gender Equity.

“This is the ideology we are up against. Tolerating the warped mindset that leads to disgusting behavior like this from radical Leftists with no consequence is how we end up with a 31 year old dad being shot and killed in cold blood,” Moore wrote.

“We cannot have representatives in our legislature justifying murder,” he added. In a subsequent post, he said the “woke” council should be abolished.

The human cost sits at the center of this controversy. Kirk, 31, was shot and killed during a speaking event at Utah Valley University, a crime Republican Utah Governor Spencer Cox called a political assassination. A manhunt remains underway for the rooftop shooter.

Hamilton’s analogy cited the Charlotte case that shocked the country. Decarlos Brown Jr., a mentally ill career criminal with a long record, fatally stabbed 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska three times on a city train. Brown had been released from prison in January despite his rap sheet, a point many have tied to Democratic policies that put repeat offenders back on the street.

The White House itself addressed that killing in a recent statement. “That has become the norm in Democrat-run cities, where Radical Left policies like ‘no cash bail’ and ‘defund the police’ put depraved career criminals back on the streets,” the statement said.

Hamilton was elected in 2023 and represents Monongalia County along West Virginia’s northern border. According to the report, neither she nor Moore responded to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The stakes are bigger than a Facebook post. Free speech protects debate; it does not excuse smearing a murdered father as a terrorist or equating persuasion with a train-side stabbing. That rhetoric normalizes violence against political opponents, exactly what America must reject.

Conservatives know what true accountability looks like. It means backing police, ending revolving-door justice, and refusing to let public officials justify or minimize bloodshed. It means defending the right to speak—and drawing a hard line against those who use tragedy to vilify an entire movement.

Charlie Kirk brought young Americans into civic life and refused to be silent. Honor that legacy by insisting on consequences for leaders who cross moral red lines, protecting debate without surrendering to slander, and standing with the families who deserve justice. Stand firm, reject the smear campaign, and make it unmistakable: this movement will not be intimidated—and it will win.