I’ve been haunted every day since Charlie Kirk was assassinated. The graphic video images of his killing are the culmination of a kind of savagery that is appallingly common in America, but which no person should ever have to see. It’s an unspeakable trauma and loss for his loved ones and supporters, and it is a legitimately devastating tragedy for America. The political morass into which we have been sinking for years has accelerated to terrifying degrees over the past week. There is no “but” here. Murder is wrong, and political murder should be unilaterally condemned. Period.
That’s why I feel qualified to call the “reckoning” following Kirk’s murder — currently being perpetrated by the ruling party in the United States government — a moral panic, a moment of shameless hypocrisy and opportunism, an appalling assault on free speech and a level of government overreach that should send chills down the spine of any American.
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