Two weeks after the country reeled from the assassination of Christian conservative, Charlie Kirk, former presidential nominee Hillary Clinton shared what some remarks which her critics called “tone-deaf.” While appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Clinton discussed the continued fight for rights in the US. “We haven’t gotten to the more perfect union, and we fought a Civil War over part of it. And people have been protesting for hundreds of years that things were not as they should be, given our ideals and how we should be moving toward them,” she said.

Those rights, however, said Clinton, are under attack and implied the current administration is trying to backtrack on those rights. “So, I think that’s what makes us so special as a country, and the idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was dominated by, you know, let’s say it, white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology, it’s just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for. And we were on the path toward that – I mean, imperfectly, lots of bumps along the way,” she said. She also said that people were “scared” by the current state of country. “The idea of we the people, that all men and women are created equal, that seems to be in the crosshairs of those on the right who want to turn the clock back on the progress that has been made, writing out huge chunks of our history, slavery, suffrage, anything inconvenient, you know, take it out of museums, take it out of national parks. You know.” The interview did not reference Kirk or his assassination and Mrs. Clinton has not made any public statements on Kirk to date.

Conservatives were quick to condemn Clinton’s statements, particularly in light of Kirk’s murder. “Hillary Clinton blames ‘white men of a certain persuasion, certain religion…(for) doing such damage…’ Says the (white) woman who paid for the fake Steele dossier that launched the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. And would her attack on ‘white men’ include…Bill?” wrote conservative commentator Larry Elder on X. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, slammed Clinton as well. “She seems to be angry that the majority of Americans rejected the trajectory that the left had America on. And it’s not just White men of a particular persuasion. And I’m not sure what she means by that,” he said. “Straight men? I’m not sure. But the reality is America has rejected this leftist ideology that has totally decoupled itself from truth.”