The Rules of Grief
The post-Kirk purge was never about decency. Trump's response to Rob Reiner's murder proves it.
Three months ago, a kindergarten assistant in South Carolina named Lauren Vaughn saw news that Charlie Kirk had been shot. She opened Facebook and posted a quote from Kirk himself, something he’d said in 2023: that gun deaths were unfortunate but “worth it” if they preserved Second Amendment rights. She added two words: “Thoughts and prayers.”
Vaughn is …
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