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In a ghastly act of political violence, right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday while speaking at a college in Utah. Kirk was 31, and leaves behind his wife, Erika, and two young children.

The murder of Kirk is a horror. It has left two young children fatherless. It has sowed fear in the public. It is a continuation of the political violence in America that has left so much destruction and distrust in its wake, and that tears away at our democracy and our sense of mutual kinship.

It has also enraged the MAGA right, and they are now demanding revenge—not just on Kirk’s killer, but on Democrats, liberal advocacy organizations, the news med

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