The Left made Charlie Kirk’s assassination inevitable. Stop burying the politics

Published September 10, 2026 11:27am ET | Updated September 10, 2026 11:27am ET



Political violence has no place in our society.”

We have certainly heard this phrase many times in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination one year ago today. And we have unfortunately heard much of the worst apathy to antipathy that one could possibly imagine from fellow humans, which proves the original phrase woefully incorrect.

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