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The day Charlie Kirk died, Taylor was at work when her brother Jake called her, laughing. He’d heard the news, and he was delighted. Not only did Jake revile Kirk, Jake viewed the killing as validation of his deeply antisemitic understanding of how the world worked. “The Jews,” Jake believed, had almost certainly had Kirk murdered because he had raised alarm about “ Jewish dollars ” reshaping American culture.

It wasn’t the first time Jake had shared these kinds of beliefs with Taylor. (Taylor and Jake are not their real names.) Jake, now 25, was once a standard build-the-wall Trump supporter, but during the pandemic, his politics shifted. He began sending T

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