Democrats wasted no time exploiting Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Senator Chris Coons delivered their new talking points on national television.

The Delaware Democrat appeared on CBS Face the Nation this weekend.

He blamed the internet itself for driving political extremism. Coons called Kirk’s murder “brutal” while discussing First Amendment protections.

Then he immediately pivoted to attacking online free speech.

“No matter how much I might deeply disagree with his political views, the idea that he would be killed in such a grotesque and public way has to bring all of us to reflect,” Coons began.

His reflection led straight to internet censorship demands.

“How hard it’s getting because the internet is an accelerant,” the senator declared ominously. Coons blamed online platforms for “driving extremism in our country.”

He claimed the internet is “driving us apart left and right.”

The senator’s language reveals the Democratic Party’s true intentions. They want to regulate and control online speech under the guise of preventing violence.

Kirk was thirty-one years old when he died at Utah Valley University.

The conservative activist was conducting one of his signature campus debates Wednesday. A gunman shot him in the neck after Kirk answered a question about transgender mass shooters. The assassination happened in front of horrified college students.

Authorities arrested suspect Tyler Robinson on Friday. His own father turned him in to police after recognizing his son.

Coons appeared alongside Senator James Lankford from Oklahoma on the CBS program.

The Republican senator offered a different perspective on the tragedy. Lankford focused on social media algorithms rather than blanket internet censorship.

He explained how platforms amplify the angriest and loudest voices.

“The algorithm on social media is always pushing who’s the angriest, who’s loudest, who says the craziest thing,” Lankford observed accurately.

The Oklahoma senator noted how civil conversations get buried.

Angry and extreme content rises to the top instead. “So anytime that there is cogent dialog or an issue on something where people may disagree, but they’re having a civil conversation on it, that gets pushed aside,” Lankford explained.

His analysis pointed toward algorithm reform rather than speech restrictions.

The Republican approach targets the problem without destroying constitutional rights. But Coons represents the mainstream Democratic response to Kirk’s assassination.

They see this tragedy as an opportunity to advance long-sought censorship goals.

Democrats have spent years trying to regulate online speech.

They’ve proposed everything from hate speech laws to platform liability changes. Previous efforts failed because Americans rejected their censorship agenda.

Now they have a martyred conservative to justify their authoritarian impulses.

The senator’s framing is particularly insidious and calculated. He acknowledges Kirk’s First Amendment rights while simultaneously attacking the platforms that enable free speech.

This represents a new strategy for Democratic censorship advocates.

They can’t openly oppose the First Amendment, so they attack the internet infrastructure instead. Coons calls the internet an “accelerant” that drives extremism.

This language prepares the ground for regulatory restrictions on online platforms.

Democrats will likely propose new laws targeting social media companies. They’ll claim these restrictions prevent political violence while actually silencing conservative voices.

The timing reveals their calculated political opportunism perfectly.

Kirk’s body was barely cold before Democrats began pushing their censorship agenda. Memorial services continue across the country for the young conservative activist.

Flowers and American flags cover makeshift shrines at Utah Valley University.

The Timpanogos Regional Hospital memorial overflows with “We love you, Charlie” posters. Americans are genuinely mourning this senseless political assassination.

Meanwhile, Democratic politicians are already exploiting his death for partisan gain.

They’re using Kirk’s murder to justify attacks on conservative speech platforms. This represents the same playbook Democrats used after January sixth.

They exploited that crisis to justify unprecedented censorship of conservative voices online.

Major social media platforms banned President Trump and thousands of conservative accounts.

Democrats cheered these private censorship campaigns while demanding even more restrictions. Now they want government regulation to finish the job.

Coons and his allies see Kirk’s assassination as their perfect justification.

The senator’s internet blame game ignores the real causes of political violence. Leftist rhetoric and mainstream media demonization of conservatives created this climate.

Instead of examining their own role in radicalizing the shooter, Democrats blame the platforms.

They refuse to acknowledge how their dehumanizing language inspired this violence. This cynical exploitation of tragedy must be rejected completely.

Americans cannot allow Kirk’s death to justify destroying online free speech.

The internet remains our last bastion of truly free expression. Democrats want to eliminate that freedom using Kirk’s blood as justification.

We must honor Charlie Kirk’s memory by defending the free speech principles he championed.

His death cannot become the excuse for American censorship.