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Podcast: The NeoLiberal Round
Episode: On A Quick Note: Radicalization, Family, and the Kirk Shooting
Description: There is breaking news on CNN: Utah prosecutors have charged the alleged shooter of Charlie Kirk with murder. The Justice Department has announced it will seek the death penalty against the 22-year-old suspect.I have a lot of breaking comments to make, and the first is this: we are learning that the shooter, a 22-year-old young man who shot and killed Kirk, grew up in a Republican household — a white, suburban home. This already complicates the narratives forming around the case.Reports suggest there was a conversation between the shooter and his roommate — or his boyf...