A president who calls his opponents “scum” and “the enemy within,” who ordered the murder of 11 people in a boat headed for Trinidad then posted snuf photos of the hit, and has repeatedly encouraged political violence in his name, is trying to catapult Charlie Kirk’s murder into an expansion of his own powers.

From the moment I heard of Charlie Kirk’s murder, I knew what I wanted to write.

Sometimes the loudest voices aren’t the ones around us, but they’re the ones inside our own heads. For me, those voices tend to rise in the quiet moments, when a message goes unanswered or when someone I love doesn’t respond right away. My mind starts spinning its own stories, convincing me that I’ve become too much, too caring, too present. I start to wonder if my affection feels like I am nagging them.

Can America avoid a Civil War when the President of the United States is openly agitating for one? We are about to find out.