This is good and insightful for sure, but there is vital context: The left’s picture of who Charlie Kirk was is who he really was. Any asshole can get up sometimes in a speech and say some words about empowerment. But he wasn’t running seminars in how to reach your potential and be a better person. His whole professional life was centered around punishing enemies, being more evil because that’s what’s needed right now, how you don’t need to have empathy for other people because that whole concept is fake.

I do agree about the awesome power of the echo chamber (I would say probably a single digit percent of people are even aware of those Democratic politicians who got murdered), but I don’t think it needs to be made out as a bipartisan thing. There is one specific side in American politics that makes lying and curating a fictional worldview into their whole global strategy, and they’re fucking good at it. That’s much more the problem than just a generalized “social media filter bubble” issue. There are not people on the other side, for whom the shootings of Democrats form their whole picture of how things are happening, and who never heard that Charlie Kirk got shot.