There’s something critically amiss in the focus on “political violence” consuming the media, government and much of our populace in the United States these days.

The tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, the cofounder of Turning Point USA, has brought this phenomenon to a boiling point, with ideologically opposing cohorts — the “left” and the “right” — blaming each other for his death.

I, however, believe the concept of “political violence” is a misnomer in the case of the murder of Charlie Kirk. My problem here is the notion and application of the adjective “political”.

I find the heated disagreement currently circulating in the polarized thinking and values in the U.S. comprise an escalated “political conflict.” Such political conflict goes back to the beginning of our nation; it’s in

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