Following the shooting death of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, tension within the conservative movement over who ultimately bears responsibility, and the tone in which the blame is communicated, are beginning to boil over. While Kirk’s shocking demise on camera during a Utah stop on his college speaking series jolted the right-wing movement into momentary unity through grief, in the days since the shooting, a split has formed between Republicans who responded with calls for vengeance and those who instead urged unity.

Kirk’s killing seems to have shocked the consciousness of conservatives in a way few other acts of gun violence have done. Even Alex Jones, who was infamously ordered by a court to pay for calling the Sandy Hook school shooting a false flag operation and

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