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A founding antidote to political violence
Kurt Shillinger
The assassination of a young conservative activist has brought a moment of reflection to a nation that in recent years has seemed to be exploring its tolerance for violence as an acceptable form of political expression. Charlie Kirk left a lot of tracks. He amplified the less-restrained rhetoric of the Trump era. Yet in the final moments of his life on a college campus in Utah on Wednesday afternoon, he was doing what may be more important than the sum of his words - debating and encouraging a hesitant and skeptical new generation to participate rather than recede. 鈥淎mong the numerous advantages promised by a wellconstructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction,鈥� James Madison argued.聽
