I think I agree on the high points. The gleeful reaction from a large portion of the left is disgusting, and though I have very little politically in common wit

I think I agree on the high points. The gleeful reaction from a large portion of the left is disgusting, and though I have very little politically in common with Kirk, this feels like a moment where "the left" finally, definitively resorted to violence to silence free speech. I don't want to draw comparisons to prior political assassinations, but...that is what this was. A man was killed for expressing opinions. Abhorrent. But I've also never quite bought in to the idea that Charlie Kirk was a titan of free speech - it always struck me as a calculated, if sincere, way of capturing the illiberal nature of "liberal" campus politics. Of course, once the trap has been so obviously set for you, it's your own damn fault if you fall into the hole. You don't get to be violent because someone made you look foolish. This editorial (like most things out of FIRE) was so intellectually on point that I found the conclusions challenging, even though I agree with them on essentially all first principles.