Charlie Kirk was in the middle of a college campus, as he had probably been hundreds of times before. He was surrounded by a mix of supporters and critics of the influential MAGA youth leader. The large, all-caps block writing above his head read, “PROVE ME WRONG.”

Kirk’s project was to park himself in the middle of an often unfriendly space — a college campus or on a liberal podcast, for example — and invite debate. That project in itself shouldn’t be a dangerous enterprise. But it was.

On Wednesday, Charlie was murdered by an assassin . Horrifically, his wife and two young children were in attendance.

I’m sickened and heartbroken, both for his family and our country.

America is in a very bad, dark place. For years, there’s been an anger and a vengeance rumbling beneath the surface,

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