Earlier today, British politician Jo Cox — a Labour party member of Parliament — was brutally murdered during a meeting with constituents.

While many have been quick to dismiss the horrific attack as the work of a deranged loner, it’s hard not to suspect a political motive: Cox fought against bigotry and was a staunch opponent of Britain leaving the European Union; the man arrested for the crime had connections to a far-right group that defended South Africa’s apartheid government and that has campaigned hard in favor of what’s known as Brexit.

While we still don’t know for sure what the killer’s motives are, that hasn’t stopped some of the most fervent supporters of Brexit are celebrating Cox’s death.

While many of the internet’s most terrible people have been leaning hard on the utterly unsubstantiated notion that the murder was a “false flag” by leftists opposed to #Brexit, others haven’t even bother to pretend that they felt bad about Jo Cox’s violent death.

Naturally, this response hs been most pronounced amongst those on the far right. In the US, that means some of the same people who have been trying their best to whip up anti-Muslim anger in the wake of the Orlando massacre.

It will be no shock to readers of this blog to discover that some of these repugnant alleged humans are also big fans of one Donald J. Trump. Tommy Grooves, a self-described “constitutionalist, Patriot, Libertarian, AltRight, Defender of LIBERTY” actually appended a #Trump2016 hashtag to this horrendous tweet:

https://t.co/YE5R8c2TbX The fate of all the political Traitor all over the world in every country.There day of reckoning ! #Trump2016 — Tommy Grooves (@Tommygrooves) June 16, 2016

In the tweet immediately preceding that one, for what it’s worth, he suggested that a writer for Vox needed to be taken on a “TRUMP HELICOPTER RIDE,” presumably a reference to Chilean dictator’s Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s practice of murdering people by throwing them from helicopters into the ocean. (See CORRECTION note below.)

#WhiteResistance, a frequent sharer of Trump’s tweets, as well as those of right-wing internet celebrities like Lauren Southern and Vox Day, had a similar reaction:

(These tweets were removed while I was writing this post, hence the screenshots.)

And there were many others — not all of them Trump fans, but most of them from the far right.

https://twitter.com/NANorthEast_/status/743473897828409344

https://twitter.com/NANorthEast_/status/743497714353246209

https://twitter.com/Fckislam10/status/743528636771270657

https://twitter.com/Fckislam10/status/743531853265543168

https://twitter.com/Steve_Crawford1/status/743543766020042753

https://twitter.com/KerrierKernow/status/743457087917854720

https://twitter.com/BodoKnerz/status/743515167732940800

https://twitter.com/Brassidi/status/743505912401432576

https://twitter.com/franz_soapbar/status/743497007881400320

Over on the rabidly pro-Trump internet Nazi tabloid The Daily Stormer, editor Andrew Anglin and most of his followers seem to be leaning towards the “false flag” theory. Other commenters had a rather different take:

While some celebrated today’s murder, one fellow predicted future murders — some of them possibly carried out by him.

Yet more reminders of how ugly politics have gotten in this misbegotten Year of Trump.

EDIT: Added link to Daily Stormer discussion (archived) and additional comment from there.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post suggested that the reference to “Trump helicopter rides” was an allusion to a famous scene in Scarface in which a man is murdered by throwing him from a helicopter; it’s far more likely that it was a reference to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s practice of murdering people by throwing them from helicopters into the ocean.

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