I didn’t plan to write about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but these chaotic times have a way of changing our best-laid plans.

Kirk’s senseless murder has been met not with a call for national healing but with demands by prominent Republicans for immediate retribution. This has included Fox News host Jesse Watters declaring “war” on Kirk’s opponents, and Vice President JD Vance vowing to crack down on the “far left.”

“This is not a both-sides problem,” Vance said at the end of Monday’s “Charlie Kirk Show,” which he personally hosted from the White House. “If both sides have a problem, one side has a much bigger and malignant problem, and that is the truth we must be told. That problem has terrible consequences.”

On Monday, President Trump escalated tensions still further with a promise to use “every resource” at his disposal to target left-leaning non-governmental organizations and advocacy groups. Never mind that the FBI and Utah police have not released any definitive statement on the shooter’s motive or political ideology. But the shooter’s true feelings hardly........

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