The most prevalent guessing game on social media is “Who killed Charlie Kirk?”
Not who fired the bullet that ended the conservative activist’s life. That was presumably settled with the surrender of Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old student acting on his expressed hatred of Kirk. Rather, who or what pushed the buttons that led the killer to pull the trigger.
That argument is fueling the most detestable national discourse in my memory. Since Kirk’s murder on a Utah college campus, the putrid swamp of social media has sounded the depths of hatred in America and revealed it as immeasurable. We are a nation awash in hate.
Tens of millions of social media users are taking to the various platforms to unload their vitriol, facing off across the political divide.
The right immediately declared Kirk a martyr to the cause of protecting the nation from apocalyptic wokeness. When they found out Robinson’s romantic interest is transgender, they were certain they had the motivation.