America’s “Inflection Point” 🧨 After Kirk’s Killing: Obama Calls Out the Rush To Blame 💥 Is this the moment American politics finally admits it has a violence problem, or are we going to keep pointing fingers until the next headline turns into a hashtag and a funeral? Former President Barack Obama just told a crowd in Erie, Pennsylvania that the United States is “at an inflection point,” and he didn’t say it for drama. He said it after a week where the country watched conservative activist Charlie Kirk get gunned down at a public event, and where leaders in Minnesota were attacked in their homes, leaving former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband dead and a state senator and his wife fighting for their lives. Obama’s message was simple and uncomfortable: political violence is not new, it is fundamentally anti-democratic, and our reflex to instantly pick an enemy is turning grief into gasoline. Obama’s words landed because they were aimed at a culture that now t...
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