"In the hours after Kirk's murder, while trying to process my own shock, I wrote a piece about him. In that piece I said: You can disagree with virtually everything Kirk believed about politics, you can detest some of what he said and did yet still believe that he was, there on that stage, practicing politics the right way: showing up to college campuses and inviting people who disagreed with him to talk with him, Klein explained."
"There were many, closer to my own politics, who were infuriated by it. Privately and publicly, they offered the worst things Kirk had said and done: starting a watchlist of leftist professors, busing people to the protest that led to the Jan. 6 insurrection, telling his political foes that they should be deported, saying the Democratic Party hates this country, saying the Civil Rights Act was a mistake."
After the murder of Charlie Kirk, he was characterized as practicing politics the right way by showing up on college campuses and inviting opponents to talk. Many people appreciated this framing, especially on the right, seeing Kirk as a friend and ally who engaged directly with opponents. Others, closer to progressive politics, were infuriated and cataloged Kirk's controversial actions, including creating a watchlist of leftist professors, busing people to a protest that contributed to the Jan. 6 insurrection, advocating deportation of political foes, declaring the Democratic Party antipathetic to the country, and calling the Civil Rights Act a mistake. Critics urged condemnation of violence without whitewashing those actions. The reaction was intensely polarized.
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