Charlie Kerk was killed and the political violence crisis

Three thousand people attended the Turning Point Usa event in which Charlie Kerk spoke on Wednesday, at an outside at the University of Utah Valley. The huge size of this crowd-in the morning, is in a school in one of the suburbs of Proveau, and even if some were there to protest-it is just another evidence that Kirk, in his campaign that lasted years ago to inspire a severe rotation between people in adolescence and twenties, built a massive movement. There was a part of Q. & A., and one of them asked about the number of Americans transmitted to the two collective archers in the past decade, Kirk replied, “Many.” The next person asked, “Do you know the number of collective archers who have been in America over the past ten years?” Kirk said, “Count or not count the gangs?” After that, in the videos, there is one listening rift, the Kirk body, and then dumping. In the audience, the heads revolve around: someone who shot him, apparently from a high location about a hundred and fifty yard. Shortly after, Kirk spokesman announced that he had been killed. He was thirty -one, and left behind a wife and two young children. President Trump, a close ally, ordered all the flags that were transferred in half of the employees until Sunday evening.

Kirk’s death was brutal and tragic. It also had an influence aimed at terrorists, to spread political panic. In the wake of direct killing with a clear political resonance, there is a period of nervous harbinger, where the public is waiting for news about the identity of the perpetrator and any hints of what may stimulate the terrible act, and the arches for the next procession. However, often, the information does not bring any clarity. We have a good feeling of politics that motivated Luigi Mangion, the accused killer of the UN CEO, and James Fields, who rushed his car to a crowd of anti -contestants in the right federations in Charlottesville and killed a young woman.

But the determination of the political motives of Thomas Crocs (who tried to kill Trump last summer, in Bater, Pennsylvania), or Cody Palmer (who was charged with thermal ruler Josh Josh Josh Shapiro, in Harrisberg, Pennsylvania, in April), or even from Vans Politer (the legislator, alongside her husband, and tried to kill another), soon became a driver in the problems of their mental illness. Basic cohesion. Robin Westman, who stands accused of shooting and killing two children in a Catholic church in Minneapolis last month (whose sexual identity was the focus of many right -wing media reports), wrote “Donald Trump’s killing” on some weapons, new Nazi slogans (“Jewish gas” and “6 million was not enough”, and the expression of the barber in Sandy Al -Khataf. Their motives were strange And enough privacy so that it cannot be easily blamed on any one party side.

The effect of these violent actions on politics was easier to follow. Shortly after the news of the shooting of Kirk, the former Obama administration official and liberal ingenuity, Tommy Vitor, chanted common feelings when he wrote on social media, “Political violence is evil and cannot be defended. It is cancer that will feed on itself and spread.” If this is true – if the violence is infectious – this is due to the fact that every action generates its responsive pattern of fear. The same news in recent years has been a catalog due to the existence of political aggression and pre -emptive awe. In 2022, a man arrived at Brett Cavano’s house with Glock and lined shoes; Later that year, Nancy Pelosi’s house stormed and tried to kill her husband with a hammer. The threats against members of Congress have increased significantly in the past decade. “I am often very keen to use my voice, because revenge is real,” said Republican Senator Lisa Moorkovsky, from Alaska, at this summer conference. After the shooting of legislators in Minnesota, a member of the Democratic Congress, Greg Lansman He said Times That every time he came out on the path of the campaign, he was haunted by a lies for himself. “I am still in my head. I don’t think it will disappear,” he said.

What politicians can control is how they respond. Speaking from the Oval Office on Wednesday evening, Trump condemned his imagined enemies. “For years, those who are on the left of the American extremist, such as Charlie, compared the Nazis and the worst killers and mass criminals in the world,” and pledged to find those who considered it responsible for “political violence, including the organizations that funded and support it.” Unlike Barack Obama, who sang “amazing grace” at a funeral after the mass fire at the Church of Charleston’s mother, Trump did not offer a gesture towards a common national feeling; The series of its victims has confined to those who are compatible with them. The man who was sitting on the firm table and blamed his enemies in political demonization – to represent “in the most hated and bag” – promoted earlier in the week a new campaign Ice Raids in Chicago with a social media job that shows himself as the character of Robert Duffal at the “End of the World Now” and the brand’s line “I love the smell of deportation in the morning …” Chicago is about to know why the Ministry of War “.

Kirk’s horrific killing footage. His head floundering the blood flows from his neck. “You are trying to cover your rules, and unfortunately, we did not do that.” Said the university police chief, who had only six officers to protect a crowd of three thousand, said, ” It is difficult to blame him. The proliferation of weapons and ease that almost anyone can have has made human life protecting increasingly difficult. The threat of political violence is extremely settler is one of the reasons why what it was one day is correct in the Trump movement increasingly correct in the country: it is not confident, and feels sick. In Utah, the people closest to the theater threw themselves quickly on Earth, and after that they did hundreds of others, as they realized what was happening, in a wave that moved abroad from Kirk. It was a visual appearance of fear, spreading. ♦