Once unleashed, political violence comes for everyone.

It doesn’t know what side of the aisle you’re on or what your ideology might be, who your allies are or what your vision for the future includes. It doesn’t know what brand of media you consume or how many ardent followers you have.

Political violence doesn’t know and doesn’t care about such things.

Like an infectious disease, it simply – and efficiently – finds more and more victims. It isn’t picky about who they are.

Whatever his beliefs, the killing of Charlie Kirk at a campus event in Utah on Wednesday is tragic. Also tragic is how partisan, violent and ugly much of the immediate reaction was, mostly on the right. Nancy Mace, a Republican congressperson from South Carolina, told a gathering of reporters that “Democrats own what happened today.” She offered no evidence, only partisan vitriol.

On Fox News, one of the most........

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