Republicans’ political purge is just getting started

Barely over a week after right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s public killing at a Utah campus, speech attacks in the name of the self-proclaimed free speech advocate are piling up.

Law enforcement officials have custody of suspected shooter Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old from Utah who prosecutors allege

was in a relationship with a transgender woman and opposed Kirk’s “hatred.” Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said last week that officials believe Robinson acted alone and that they didn’t anticipate further arrests.

But to many of Kirk’s friends and defenders, any past or present critic of him – or anyone on the left in general – is implicated in the ac …

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