It took less than a week for President Donald Trump’s administration to roll out the worst kind of fanatical overreach following the killing of Charlie Kirk. On Sept. 10, the right-wing culture warrior was gunned down while speaking on the campus of Utah Valley University. And every day since, we have witnessed how quickly a crisis can be transformed into an instrument of repression.

Trump, for his part, has given several indications that he’s ready to move on from headlines dominated by Kirk’s killing. When asked by reporters two days after Kirk’s death to address the meaning of the popular podcaster’s assassination, he bragged about the White House ballroom, which is now under construction. On Sunday he skipped a vigil for Kirk, held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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