Conservative political activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk was killed Wednesday after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University. He was 31.
Kirk, himself a college dropout, was influential with college students and young voters — not only in helping to elect Trump to the presidency but also to inspire a new movement of conservative activists.
He frequently traveled to college campuses, speaking and taking questions from audience members in exchanges that often led to viral videos.
X users quickly highlighted in the aftermath of the tragedy that Kirk had warned of “assassination culture,” a growing left-wing appetite for violence months before he was killed.
Kirk posted back in April, “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.”
The now eerie post in retrospect continued, “In California, activists are naming ballot measures after Luigi Mangione.”
“The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response.”
“This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and