‘Psychop’: how the theories of extreme right conspiracy on Minnesota’s shot have evolved to protect sorceress

In the hours After Vance Boelter was appointed suspected in the fatal shooting of Melissa Hortman, representative of the democratic state of Minnesota, and her husband Mark Hortman, far -right conspiracists and republican influencers said they were a violent left democrat.

“The extreme left is violent killer”, Elon Musk he wrote Saturday, a post that remains on the site and has been seen over 50 million times.

When the facts of history emerged: the alleged shooter had been recorded in other states as a RepublicanIt was said that he had voted President Donald Trump And, as reported by Wired, he had participated in an evangelical ministry in which he preached against abortion and demonized the LGTBQ community: the conspiracy theories did not stop. Instead, they have just changed. The posters therefore said that the accident was a false flag conducted by the dark state of the dark state, while they tried to remove the shooter from any link with the president and the wider sorceress movement.

For years following mass shootings or politically motivated violence, the far right has tried to interpret the authors as on the left, Members of Antifa, Part of the LGBTQ communityor connected in some way to the Democratic Party, despite all the tests that show that extremist violence is usually conducted by far -right actors.

On Saturday, while the man’s hunt for the alleged shooter was underway, the conservatives affirmed almost immediately that the suspicion was connected in some way to the governor of Minnesota Tim Walz and that the shooting was part of a great conspiracy to hit a democrat that had recently voted with the Republicans in the legislature of Minnesota. The alleged shooter was renewed to a Walz workforce development committee in 2019. But there is No test To suggest a closer link between the couple.

This did not stop the term “walz nominated” trend on Saturday, with Right influencer declare confidence That the alleged shooter was a democrat.

“Walz had executed it?” Right commentator Mike Cernovich he wrote On X, citing a post by a well -known report of the conspiracy theory that highlighted Hortman had voted with the Republicans.

YouTuber Benny Johnson, who has almost 5 million followers on the video sharing site and over 3 million followers on X, positioned Filming as part of a growing tendency of left -wing violence in a long screed on X who described the alleged shooter as “a nominated from Tim Walz’s left”.

“Everyone speaks of Minnesota, but does not talk about the boy seems to be a left”, Donald Trump Jr. he said in an interview With News Nation. “The boy who committed those atrocities this weekend was a democrat who worked for Tim Walz.” When he is pressed by the interviewer, who replied: “He voted for your father,” said Trump Jr., “I will believe when I see him”.

Sunday, David Carlson, who met the alleged shooter from the fourth grade and described the 57 -year -old as his best friend, rejected the statements that the alleged tiper was a democrat, Saying journalists on Sunday “It would be offended if people called him democratic.”