Ever since he shed this mortal coil, I’ve been looking for one source for a lot of the worst stuff Kirk said. I think Coates does that really well here. It’s mostly a compendium of some of the worst stuff that isn’t getting attention in the media, even the media that’s critical of him (which seems to be focusing on what he said about guns). And he sources all of the quotes. Coates isn’t going full Peter Daou but it feels like he is radicalizing before our eyes.

Sending this to someone in my life who was only vaguely familiar with Kirk but since he got shot has become a bit obsessed with him. They told me “the media is taking what he said out of context” and that they “didn’t agree with everything he said but a lot of what he said made sense”.