I’m haunted, as many are, by the prospect that we may have lost our country for good this week.

In his column on Friday, Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon contrasted the assassination of Charlie Kirk with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler last year. The latter sparked a MAGA renaissance, while Kirk’s death produced “a different feeling of hollow dread settled heavily onto the national consciousness.”

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