Reactions to the Charlie Kirk assassination reveal a nation on the brink

Reactions to the Charlie Kirk assassination reveal a nation on the brink


What is the greatest threat to American democracy? Easy: hyperpartisanship. Seeing your opponents as enemies. Defining corruption as “holding opinions I dislike”.

All these things were on hideous display in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk. At the time of writing, it is not clear who pulled the trigger or why, so let me start somewhere else, with the removal of Britain’s slippery and sybaritic ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson.

Lord Mandelson was fired following the leak of a string of obsequious messages to Jeffrey Epstein, many of them gathered in a scrapbook of birthday greetings. Yes, that scrapbook. No one disputes the authenticity of the Mandelson messages, yet we’re supposed to believe that similar messages from President Donald Trump were forged.

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