American politics has long personalized its violence. Time and again, history’s advance has been imagined to depend on silencing or destroying a single figure.
The day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, commentators repeated a familiar refrain: “This isn’t who we are as Americans.”
Others similarly weighed in. Whoopi Goldberg on The View de… [5535 chars]
Source: UPI News | Published: 2025-09-16T11:05:16Z
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