In an era when politics has increasingly become a blood sport, Wednesday’s assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk before thousands of people on the campus of Utah Valley University, was nonetheless a shocking and profane act of violence.

Kirk, like all victims of gun violence, was someone’s family member — a husband, a father, a son. He was a professed Christian and a provocateur who took his message to places that were often hostile; he welcomed a back-and-forth with those who disagreed with his views. He was a media savant who leveraged his views into the algorithms of young people, particularly men, who have been historically reluctant to engage in politics. Many people who couldn’t have picked Tucker Carlson or Candace Owens out of a police lineup knew Charlie Kirk. Turni

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