The culture war wasn’t just a metaphor at Utah Valley University last week.
We need to learn more about Tyler Robinson, the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk, but based on what we know so far he represents the polar opposite of Kirk in every important respect.
The young man with the transgender boyfriend shot the young man with the wife and two kids.
The guy with a reported interest in “furries” killed the guy with an interest in spreading the Gospel.
The believer in gender fluidity murdered the believer in traditional gender roles.
In cultural terms, it was aberrant versus normal — a representative of all that is fashionable and bizarre, on the one hand, and a spokesman for the tried and true, on the other.
Elite culture has, for decades, worked to flip the script on these values.