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One year ago, on Sept. 10, 2025, the most horrific political assassination in the United States in the 21st century occurred: At Utah Valley University, a bullet cut down Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at the age of 31.

Kirk’s killing, allegedly at the hands of a leftist in a homosexual relationship with a transgender individual who hated Kirk for his views on LGBT issues, was a singular event in the U.S. body politic. But, unfortunately, it didn’t happen in a vacuum.

Since Donald Trump won his first term in 2016, threats of violence have become normalized on the left. This was true even among celebrities. Kathy Griffin infamously held up the effigial bloody head of Trump for a magazine photo shoot. Madonna, during a profanity-sodden tirade at the Women’s March in January of 2017, said that she “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.”

These celebs had no intention of following through, one assumes. The people that did were called antifa — a loose coalition of far-left thugs that intermittently terrorized conservatives during the first Trump administration.

They were lauded by the media and the rest of the left, however. We were often told that “antifa” meant “anti-fascist,” and if you were anti-anti-fascist, what did that make you, hmm?

Then came the annus horribilis of 2020. After the death of George Floyd, riots were allowed to break out in every major city. While people had been locked down........

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