He was young and vibrant, the spokesman for a new generation. But when he was gunned down, there was some cheering amid the widespread shock.

I’m not talking about Charlie Kirk, who was murdered on a Utah college campus last week; I’m talking about John F. Kennedy. But the fact that similar words can be used to describe both political assassinations underscores this point:

Resorting to violence to further political goals is not a partisan disease. It never has been, and it certainly isn’t today.

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Unfortunately, not everybody understands that, notably the president of the United States, who saw Kirk’s murder as a reason to blame his opponents on the left.

But just months before Kirk was gunned down, prominent Minnesota Democrat Melissa Hortman, her husband and dog were

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