After the fatal shooting of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk last week, observers rushed to take part in what’s become one of America’s most gruesome past times: waiting to figure out the politics of the shooter, so blame could be assigned to one party or the other for the tragedy.

Conservative politicians hurried to identify the shooter as a far-left Democrat. After Tyler Robinson was arrested for the shooting, left-wing commenters circulated unfounded theories that Robinson might be a Groyper, a white supremacist who thought Kirk’s racism didn’t go far enough. The war over Robinson’s identity reached a crescendo with Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, after the late-night host seemed to imply Robinson was a MAGA supporter in a monologue Monday night. Meanwhile, the right, starting with Pres

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