Kirk’s incendiary brand of conservativism was inherently divisive and provocative.

There are unstable people of all political persuasions and the marked lack of widespread political violence is hard won by years of obeying political norms that include not resorting to violence within political systems.

In the United States there was first a fraying of norms and now there seem to be fewer and fewer norms people are willing to uphold each day.

To focus on calling people “Nazis” and “Fascists” is to miss the wood for the trees.