🗞️ Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is a Tragedy and a Disaster, Jacobin

No one should be killed as punishment for political expression, no matter how objectionable. …

… the prospect of a descent into tit-for-tat political violence is an ominous development that threatens to narrow the space for meaningful political action.… We [the Left] say things that others find extremely objectionable all the time, and we expect to be met with strenuous counterargument – not violent reprisal.

A sober and much welcomed op-ed