Commentary: Charlie Kirk's killing is horrific — and likely not the end of political violence

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There is no room in a healthy democracy, or a moral society, for murders based on vengeance or beliefs.

Violence comes where trust in the system is decimated, and where hope is ground to dust.

Over the next few days, we are going to hear politicians, commentators and others remind us that political violence is never OK, and never the answer.

That is true.

There is no room in a healthy democracy, or a moral society, for killings based on vengeance or beliefs — political, religious, whatever.

But the sad reality is that our democracy is not healthy, and violence is a symptom of that. Not the make-believe, cities-overrun violence that has led to the military in our streets, but rea