Montgomery’s death seems to have embarrassed some of the Trumpen Youth, at least enough to start deleting their most casually dismissive, insane rants about the pandemic. Daily Kos staffer Walter Einenkel posted this:
Turning Point USA is the collegiate alt-right racist organization that has brought you Charlie Kirk. Kirk is something of a Trump youth leader, best known for dressing the part of someone serious while saying the same bogus racist anti-immigration b.s. older white supremacists like Trump and Steve Bannon say. Not unlike their elected officials, Turning Point USA—which was started by Bill Montgomery—is wrong about 98% of the time, and when they’re wrong, Turning Point USA is spectacularly wrong 100% of the time.
Sadly, Montgomery died on Tuesday from complications due to the coronavirus. Kirk posted a tribute to Montgomery on Twitter and told Politico that “I can’t put into words how saddened I am by the death of my dear friend Bill Montgomery.” After that, as people began clipping and sending Kirk and his Turning Point USA social media team all of the anti-mask memes and conspiracy theory-laden statements they made about the global pandemic, Turning Point USA began deleting old posts.
It’s important to note that while Montgomery was dying from COVID-19, Turning Point USA was posting the above meme. People posted some of Turning Point USA’s other greatest COVID-19 hits.
They seem nice.
I suppose it’s good news that they had enough decency to start deleting those tweets. I wish I thought they’d learned something but it’s almost certain that they haven’t.