The assault has become increasingly brutal as Trump and his allies intensify their demonization of all things left of center, by which they often seem to mean anything to the left of the hard right.
Ryan Enos, a political scientist at Harvard, emailed me in response to my inquiries about the rapid series of developments after Kirk’s death:
There is no doubt about what Trump is doing in the wake of Kirk’s killing. His attacks on his political opponents are purely authoritarian, and he sees the killing of Kirk as an opportunity to accomplish
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