On Sept. 14, the Substack writer Heather Cox Richardson claimed in her daily missive that “the radical Right is working to distort the country’s understanding” of Charlie Kirk’s murder. The alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, wasn’t on the Left, she wrote. Rather, he was “a young white man from a Republican, gun-enthusiast family, who appears to have embraced the far Right.”
It seems that Richardson bought into the theory circulating on the Left that Robinson was a Groyper — that is, a devotee of the far-Right provocateur Nick Fuentes — who killed Kirk for the sin of insufficient reactionary radicalism. Even in the fog of speculation and conjecture that necessarily follows such a shocking event, informed observers recognized that this theory was, generously, bereft of evidence. At the same time, evidence was already accumulating that Robinson had Left-wing motivations.
