BLACKSBURG, Va. — It was just after 4 p.m. when I had meandered my way through Virginia Tech’s campus — teeming with the buzz of students leaving classes — and found the growing line for a Turning Point USA event, only the second since its founder, Charlie Kirk, had been assassinated at a similar event in Utah two weeks and one day before.

There are plenty of things from the evening in Blacksburg that will make the news, from the greatly heightened security (including officers on the roof of the venue and police drones overhead) to podcaster Megyn Kelly’s tête-à-tête with a student who blamed President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric” for Kirk’s murder. But there was one moment that likely won’t draw so much attention.

It was an “uncomfortable” moment — at least, that’s how Virginia Gov

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