Half-staff for Charlie Kirks isn’t supremacy, it’s civilization

Honoring the victim and condemning the shot doesn’t “canonize” ideas. It’s the basic rule in a democracy that rejects violence as a method.

You don’t have to like him to grasp the essential point.

Lowering the flag to half-staff isn’t applause for someone’s ideas.

It’s a simple public gesture that says three clear things when the noise tries to swallow everything: a life was taken, political violence is unacceptable, the rule of law stands. Full stop.

Confusing civic mourning with propaganda …