Democratic politicians and pundits have rightly been quick to condemn not just Charlie Kirk’s brutal murder but a “horrifying wave of political violence in America,” as the New York Times editorial board put it. Ezra Klein began his elegy for the way Kirk practiced politics by stating that the “foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in politics without fear of violence.” Worrying trends in the other direction, the editorial board and Klein both suggested, are evidenced not