"I disagreed with Charlie Kirk on pretty much everything, but his shocking and morally repugnant assassination is deeply concerning, and not just because it's another example of the lethality of our politics. Kirk's killing is also sending prominent conservatives on a warpath, setting the stage for a dangerous expansion of federal government repression. Kirk was a social media megastar and the founder of Turning Point USA, the foremost rightwing youth organization in the country."
"He called Martin Luther King, Jr awful and said we made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s. He believed in the so-called great replacement theory, which asserts that elites are encouraging mass migration to undermine white people in western countries. Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America, he wrote on X the day before he was killed."
Charlie Kirk was a far-right media figure and founder of Turning Point USA who used combative, conspiratorial rhetoric. He promoted ideas including the great replacement theory, denigrated civil-rights gains, disparaged marginalized groups, and framed Islam and Jewish influence as existential threats. He presented himself as a free-speech advocate while targeting liberal academics and opposing gun-control measures, acknowledging an acceptable annual toll of gun deaths to preserve the Second Amendment. His killing has provoked fierce conservative reactions and raises concern that political violence will be used to justify expanded federal repression. The piece defends the principle that abhorrent views should not be met with lethal force.
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