The far-right political influencer Charlie Kirk , shot dead in an assassination at a university campus event last Wednesday, has proven as polarizing in death as he was in life. On the one hand are the MAGA faithful, mourning their preeminent youth-movement leader as a martyr. On the other are detractors who call Kirk’s ideology hateful and extreme, criticism that has cost many their jobs as his supporters accuse them of trying to incite further political violence.

Not even the vaunted American pastime of football , it seems, is safe from this partisan vitriol. After a Thursday Night Football showdown between the Washington Commanders and the Green Bay Packers on Sept. 11, the day after Kirk’s death, featured a moment of silence for the activist — a league decision , according

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