MAGA Exposes Its Naked Cynicism as It Revels in Kirk’s Death

The murder of Charlie Kirk is repugnant. It is a tragedy for his family and friends, and our American society.

But this tragedy is now being compounded by the reactions it has generated. From our leaders, from the media, from the right and from the left, response after response has made future violence more likely—if not inevitable.

We live in a nation riven and roiled by a culture of violence. It is pernicious and pervasive, touching each of us, our daily lives, our politics, our public discourse and our national identity.

And in the hours immediately after following the Kirk’s killing during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, it became clear it would signal another dark turn, one in which we spiral further into brutality, loss and suffering akin to pas