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44:20
Issued on: 11/09/2025 - 20:29
44:20 min
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If Charlie Kirk wasn’t a household name internationally, he is now. Across the United States, flags at half mast on government buildings after an assassination that bears the markings of a professional hit job. It was president Trump himself who broke news of the death of the 31-year old MAGA influencer on Truth Social.
We ask about circumstances of the shooting at a university campus talk in Utah, measure the impact - Kirk’s powerful messaging could made his masculinist, anti-woke, nationalist views seem hip and cool to young people and the backlash in a nation where social media-fuelled vitriol has led to the real life shootings - like the one targeting Trump himself. Trump, who’s evoked wartime powers to militarize his response to immigration and crime. What kind of response to expect to the killing of a figure from the front lines of America's culture wars?
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