Since Charlie Kirk was shot and killed last week in cold blood at an outdoor college forum in Utah, our country has been in shock. The aftermath of that unspeakable tragedy has generated inspired and healing comments by that state’s governor, angry, ill-advised outbursts from others in public life, and even impassioned arguments, yet without proof, of left-wing radical groups creating the atmosphere that fostered and abetted the assassination itself. It has been both hard and disheartening for most of us to process it all.

But one thing seems clear. It’s time for genuine and candid national introspection on how we got to this terrible place and how we can get out. While I’m not sure that’s even possible any longer in our fractured country, if we don’t at least try, it seems certain that t

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