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Within hours of the reports of Charlie Kirk’s assassination in Utah this week, people took to social media to respond. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss what the online reaction to Kirk’s death could expose about the discourse surrounding modern American political violence.

“What we see—and have seen so many times before—after acts of political violence: this sense of regret, this sense of ‘We need to pull it back; this is going too far,’” Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent at The New York

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