Congressman Bennie Thompson says Kirk’s views “resurrected dangerous prejudices of a dark past.”

Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson, a Democrat, was the only member of the state’s federal delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives to vote against a resolution Friday honoring the life of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

Kirk was assassinated last week while on a college campus debating public policy issues in Utah. He built Turning Point USA, a grassroots organization that challenged left-leaning ideology with conservative viewpoints, reaching younger voters through his high school and college outreach effots.

Thompson joined 209 of his Democratic colleagues in the House to oppose the resolution honoring Kirk’s life and work.

Mississippi’s other three Congressmen Trent K

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