‘What have we become?’: shock across US political parties after Charlie Kirk shooting
by Ed Pilkington in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#6ZYX4)
After rightwing activist was killed, nation already grappling with polarization faces shock bordering on despair
Charlie Kirk's death by an assassin's bullet on a university campus in Utah on Wednesday has left the United States, a country already grappling with mounting political anger and polarization, in a state of profound shock bordering on despair.
Kirk, a rising star of Donald Trump's make America great again (Maga) movement, was struck in the neck by a single shot as he addressed a large student crowd at Utah Valley University. The event had been billed as the grand opening of his 15-stop America Comeback Tour", but instead will be marked as the place where he uttered his last words.
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