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People visit a memorial for Charlie Kirk at the headquarters of his organization, Turning Point USA, in Phoenix, Arizona on Sunday.

From coast to coast, from left to right, from young to old, one profoundly troubling question now haunts Americans: Is last week’s assassination of the founder of the conservative Turning Point USA organization a turning point in American life?

A deeply unsettled country – unnerved by the toxic nature of political life, apprehensive about the changes wrought by the fury of the national discourse and shocked by the rifleshot that killed Charlie Kirk – approaches the new week with new anxiety.

With Mr. Kirk set to be buried next Sunday and with tensions and recrimination rising, almost the only area of national consensus is that this is a very dange

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