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The assassination of Charlie Kirk is rapidly proving to be one of the most consequential incidents of political violence of the MAGA era. The Trump administration is promising a crackdown on liberal institutions , people who have publicly commented on Kirk’s death are being fired from their jobs , Attorney General Pam Bondi is threatening to strip away the First Amendment for speech she doesn’t like, and so on.

Much of this has to do with who Kirk was— a talented showman and cunning organizer who became instrumental to the American right’s rising tide—but tensions have also risen around the purported motivations and identity of his alleged killer, Tyler Ro

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