Utah's Republican governor, Spencer Cox, sent the right message in his remarks Wednesday soon after the shocking assassination in his home state of the influential conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

“Our nation is broken,” Cox said.

He cited the killing of Democratic Minnesota legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband, the two assassination attempts on President Donald Trump, and the arson of Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence.

"We just need every single person in this country to think about where we are and where we want to be. To ask ourselves, is this it? Is this what 250 years has wrought on us? I pray that that's not the case," he said.

Kirk had a loyal following for the culture war controversies he fueled as an online voice for his self-styled Christian na

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