When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, he was sitting under a tent that had “America Comeback Tour” printed in huge letters across all four sides.

It was the theme of his tour of college campuses, a tour run by his Turning Point organization that was, according to NBC News, early-funded by ten morbidly rich right-wingers. The question is “America Comeback” to what?

In 1981, when Ronald Reagan was sworn into office: Fully two-thirds of Americans were in the middle class, College was so cheap you could pay your tuition with a weekend job,

— Healthcare was inexpensive and widely available, Women and minorities had achieved legal (albeit not yet actual) parity with white men, And school and mass shootings were largely unknown because weapons of war were mostly outlawed from our streets.

Today

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