Governor Spencer Cox (Utah State ’98) and Senator Mike Lee are slated to speak at the upcoming Sept. 30 Turning Point USA event at Utah State University. In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, America needs clear-eyed moral leadership to renounce political violence.

Governor Cox is obviously that kind of leader. One must ask, however, what Mike Lee adds to such an event. Will we see Senator Lee the public servant, or “Based Mike Lee,” who cracked jokes about the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman? Even after Senator Tina Smith tearfully begged him to stop normalizing political violence, he refused to apologize. He *still* hasn’t apologized.

None of this is to say that Senator Lee, or his dark “based” internet alter ego, should be banned from speaking on campus

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