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Charlie Kirk warned us about assassination culture

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Charlie Kirk was right. Assassination culture, which has grown from the gaping spiritual vacuum in large parts of the West, is a profound threat to American self-government and our future as a free country.

In April, Kirk posted on X what has turned out to be a sickeningly prophetic message.

“Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump,” Kirk wrote.

As we’ve seen from some of the ongoing reactions to Kirk’s assassination there aren’t just hordes of leftists on social media (many of whom are not just random weirdos, but teachers, librarians, doctors, and professional people) who are openly celebrating his murder, but a fair number of legacy media journalists and pundits who have said that Kirk essentially had it coming.

And a growing number of elected Democrats have decided that this is a moment to demonstrate who is the most ghoulish among them. They’ve shamefully signaled to their apparently bloodthirsty supporters that assassination is perhaps no big deal if the slain is on the “wrong side of history.”

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Taking this data at face value, "at least somewhat justified" warrants a more nuanced interpretation than is immediately obvious, it doesn't necessarily represent approval of assassination as a political tactic. It could just represent ambivalence in the face of moral complexity.

BTW, historically, both Catholics and Protestant theologians and ethicists have justified assassination, under extreme circumstances. But it would be a mistake to say "Christians approve of political assissination" as a generality. It just shows that ordinary rules government ordinary circumstances well enough, but there are always extreme cases where extreme reactions are potentially justifiable.
 
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