Charlie Kirk Was Emblematic of a Country Polarised and Imploding

Charlie Kirk was practising politics the right way

The assassinated right-wing firebrand and I were on different sides of most political arguments, yet we were on the same side on the continued possibility of American politics. It’s supposed to be an argument, not a war.

NYT Columnist Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was 'Practicing Politics in Exactly the Right Way'

Charlie Kirk was "practicing politics in exactly the right way," New York Times columnist Ezra Klein said in an op-ed following the horrific murder of the Turning Point USA founder.

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way

Thursday morning, Ezra Klein at the New York Times published a column titled “Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way.” Klein’s general thesis is that Kirk was willing to talk to anyone, regardless of their beliefs, as evidenced by what he was doing while he was shot, which was debating people on college campuses. Klein is not alone in this take; the overwhelming sentiment from America’s largest media institutions in the immediate aft…

Charlie Kirk was emblematic of a country polarised and imploding

In December 2021, I was in an exhibition hall in Phoenix, Arizona, with 10,000 young people who had come to hear a lineup of “America first” speakers, from Tucker Carlson to Ted Cruz. This was AmericaFest, an annual rally led by Turning Point USA, a conservative youth organisation whose founder and CEO, Charlie Kirk, was murdered on September 10. I have spent the past four years listening most days to Kirk’s view of the world while carrying out …

Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk

"Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way"

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

«But I’ve seen two forms of reaction that are misguided, however comprehensible the rage or horror that provoked them. One is a move on the left to wrap Kirk’s death around his views — after all, he defended the Second Amendment, even admitting it meant accepting innocent deaths. Another is on the right, to turn his murder into a justification for an all-out war, a Reichstag fire for our time. But as the list above reveals, there is no world in …