On Friday, Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old man from Utah, was arrested and accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk. Even before the alleged assassin’s apprehension was announced Friday morning by President Donald Trump on “Fox & Friends,” Republican politicians and right-wing media influencers rushed to use Kirk’s murder as a permission structure to move American politics even more to the right.

At 31, Kirk was one of the most influential and prominent right-wing political activists in American politics. He was widely credited with bringing young conservatives into the electoral process by visiting college campuses to engage them, not by sparring with faculty in a lecture hall, but by debating underclassmen on the quad — the very place he was shot on Wednesday while speaking at Utah Valley

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