After the fatal shooting of right-wing personality Charlie Kirk on Wednesday afternoon, the rhetoric on the right quickly escalated. Influential voices on social media declared war on the left , despite the absence of any knowledge about the suspect or their motive at the time.

President Donald Trump made a formal address where he pledged to go after the “radical left.”

“We are seeing language weaponized so swiftly,” says Intercept columnist Natasha Lennard .

“I think the Trump administration has a clear track record at this point of taking these little chips that they can leverage to induce state repression and encroach on civil liberties,” says Ali Breland , a staff writer at The Atlantic.

This week on The Intercept Briefing, host Akela Lacy speaks to Lennard and Breland a

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