Sen. Mike Lee posts thousands of times, often late at night, about politics. Colleagues have grown accustomed to the Utah Republican’s online persona, mostly brushing it off.

Utah’s senior Senator, Mike Lee took to X over the weekend to comment on the killings of a Minnesota state senator and her husband and the shootings of two other state lawmakers, saying, “this is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way” accompanied by a picture of the suspect,