WASHINGTON — “When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens because you start to think the other side is so evil and they lose their humanity,”

Charlie Kirk said that. I’m not sure when. It was a remark Vice President JD Vance aired during a two-hour tribute to the slain conservative icon on Rumble Monday following Kirk’s assassination as he spoke at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.

Because Kirk was a star — and happy warrior — an apparent left-leaning assassin chose to silence Kirk by eliminating him.

I didn’t know Kirk well, but it was always a pleasure to see him in action. He loved taking hostile questions and mixing it up with the intolerant left. He was unfailingly polite, which made him highly effective.

Vance credited Kirk with helping

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