Just a few hours after Charlie Kirk was murdered, my wife and I went to dinner with another couple we know from the neighborhood. So I said to her: “But we can agree, right, that what happened was inexcusable?” She agreed but quickly pivoted to talk about “gun violence” in America. I said I knew what she meant by the term “gun violence” but it annoyed me nonetheless. But this wasn’t only about “gun violence” — it was really about their visceral hatred of Donald Trump. At least they agreed, sincerely or otherwise, that the murder of Charlie Kirk was inexcusable.