David Weiss is a Los Angeles-based freelancer who grew up in Oak Park. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, the LA Herald Examiner and Men's Journal and co-founded the band Was (Not Was) with Don Was. His father, the late Rube Weiss, was Santa Claus in the Hudson's Thanksgiving Parade.

By David Weiss

Charlie Kirk and President Trump

The recent murder of conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk was a tragedy plain and simple, no matter one’s ideological bent or religious beliefs. I myself – the Jewish grandson of a Russian-born anarchist/atheist -- have little in common with Kirk’s world-view, a crowd-pleasing hodgepodge of biblical homilies and populist clichés. Ditto for his slavish loyalty to Donald Trump, a crude apostate who held the good book in his tiny hands but once:

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