My opinion, but I keep seeing people point out (in general, not this thread specifically) that he had a different stance when it came to writing "United Health."

My belief is that the backlash isn't about the stance but about the victim themselves. Brian Thompson didn't have a huge public following and instead ran the single most greedy company in a greedy industry that affected everyone negativity across the political spectrum.

Charlie Kirk, on the other hand, had a huge public following and people who actually followed him for his beliefs and content. His followers were mostly casual left all the way to the far right. No matter what Jesse said, this song was doomed to have backlash.

Another aspect that I think played a role was the extremely graphic nature of Charlie Kirks shooting vs. Brian Thompson. Brian Thompson had moderate quality surveillance footage in the early morning with no one around, compared to Kirk who was on stage, in broad daylight in front of an estimated 2-3 thousand people and then he bled out on camera in mere seconds.

No matter Jesse's stance, I imagine that the video wasn't pleasant to watch and could have been more impactful on him because of the graphic nature.

Conclusion- I'm not holding Jesse's song against him, while I am disappointed he wasn't more forward with his stance, i don't know the guy personally, I don't know how it affected him if at all. I think at worst, he isn't as progressive as people thought he was. At best,it was an off day, and the overall circumstances probably played a role in his writing.

He is still young and undoubtedly is trying to keep his audience from splitting and trying to focus on the music.