When Jennifer Welch played a viral clip of a protester gleefully shouting “Yes, I’m glad he’s not here” about Charlie Kirk — who’d been assassinated — and then laughed, it wasn’t just unfortunate. It was a moral red flag waving over progressive culture. Welch said: “So listen up, Democratic establishment… you can either jump on board with this s—, or we’re coming after you in the same way that we come after MAGA. Celebrating a death and using it as a rallying point for political change isn’t activism or free speech in the noble sense — it’s something deeper and uglier.
When the media gives a hero statue to hate
Of course, this isn’t just about Welch. It’s also about how the media and cultural gatekeepers rushed in to put her on a pedestal. Profiles in “Rolling Stone,” The Guardian and more hailed her as the “new face” of progressive podcasting. Meanwhile, the same outlets would howl if a conservative host echoed the exact same sentiment. The double standard is plain: if the caravan-of-the-left is applauding death, the soundtrack is silence and celebration. That sends the very wrong message to Americans — regardless of political side — that some deaths are funny, some voices off-limits, and some speech gets an easy pass.
Hollywood’s progressive squeal gets real ugly
Let’s not forget the cultural angle: Welch, a former reality star from Sweet Home Oklahoma, stepping into political commentary with a megaphone and cheering when a death is treated like a party favor. That’s where entertainment meets extremism — the kind of bizarre mash-up where virtue signaling becomes cruelty. It’s one thing to challenge ideas. It’s another to gleefully celebrate someone’s murder and then demand your party align with that energy. The optics are as appalling as the substance.
The Left’s moral compass is missing
Welch’s behavior is a symptom, not the disease. Because at heart, when someone can applaud an assassination and use it as leverage in intra-party politics, the moral compass isn’t just broken—it’s missing. Americans on all sides should feel uneasy. The moment we normalize “joy at someone’s death” as a political tactic, we’ve lost the argument before it starts. Even if you loathe Charlie Kirk’s ideas, the answer is not to rebuke life itself. It’s to engage with ideas, not death.
Why Republicans cannot ignore this
Yes, Republicans have their own baggage and litany of cultural missteps. But the moment a confidence in decency fails on the left — and no one calls foul — conservatives should call it out. Because when hypocrisy starves for consistency, snark becomes cynicism, and division becomes default. If one side gets to laugh at a death, the other side gets to worry whether their voice is next. That kind of asymmetry doesn’t produce change — it produces fear.
How Democrats betrayed their own logic
Welch basically said: “If you don’t embrace the radical flank, we will come after you.” That’s not reform. That’s coercion. That’s begging the question of whether your party is built on ideas or intimidation. And if the Democratic Party shelters someone who laughs at an assassination and then cheaps out on corporate donor money or establishment norms, they’ve abandoned the argument and embraced a strategy that is indistinguishable from the thing they claim to oppose.
The closing reel: Where do we go from here?
So here’s the deal: This is about more than Jennifer Welch, more than Charlie Kirk. It’s about culture. It’s about speech. It’s about what we let pass for “acceptable” in American public life. The moment we say — tacitly or explicitly — that celebrating someone’s death is just part of the “game,” the game has already changed. And the keyphrase— Jennifer Welch celebrates Charlie Kirk death — isn’t just tabloid fodder; it’s a flashing billboard of what we’re becoming.
Editor’s Note: This article reflects the opinion of the author.
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