MAGA Tour Turns Deadly: Utah Drama, FBI Coffee Breaks, & Flags Half-Staffed
In a grim episode worthy of political soap opera plots, Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old CEO of Turning Point USA (aka MAGA’s campus conqueror), was fatally shot at Utah Valley University on September 10 during his 'American Comeback Tour'—the conservative roadshow apparently stressing turds out coast-to-coast. President Trump improperly extended condolences from the Oval Office while vowing to 'crack down' on the 'radical left,' carefully ignoring violence against Democrats like assailants impersonating cops in Minnesota, embassy staff ambushes in D.C., and even an arson attack on Governor Josh Shapiro’s family home. FBI Director Kash Patel and Utah cops briefly detained two suspects only to release them, so the hunt is still on, because nothing says efficiency like a political assassination in campus parking lots. Flags flew half-mast, rage and conspiracy theories bloomed, and Kirk’s loud legacy continues to polarize with all the subtlety of a bullhorn at a yoga retreat.
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America’s political violence is now so bipartisan that only selective outrage and half-staff flags can keep everyone pretending they care equally. Meanwhile, Kirk’s 'American Comeback Tour' got an unexpected dead stop in Utah – truly bringing 'free speech' to a new level of permanent silence.
So Kirk got shot during a MAGA tour, and Trump’s official reaction was to vow a crackdown on 'radical left'—ignoring the very domestic terrorism that also targets Democrats. Selective memory’s the new bipartisan American pastime.
Political violence in 2025: from hammer attacks to arson and shootings. Yet the FBI giving suspects a quick release signals we’re competing for slowest response awards in democracy's ongoing circus.
Source: Axios | Published: 9/11/2025 | Author: Zachary Basu
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