For a week now, late-night television has been riding the ripples of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative political activist killed in broad daylight at a rally in Utah. You already know that Tyler Robinson (whom friends reportedly described as “terminally online” ) has been charged with Kirk’s murder. The world felt particularly topsy-turvy, particularly parallel universe, as, in the wake of the shocking videos of the shooting, the shooter’s bullet casings were discovered with the ominously irreverent “Hey fascist! Catch!” and “If you read this you are gay LMAO” etched onto them. We’ve all been cast adrift in the cognitive dissonance between the visceral seriousness of the crime and the abject flippancy of the shooter, the brutality of the shooting and the mem

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