Politicians on both sides of the aisle have rightly remembered political violence, in particular the meaningless murder of an exceptional young man: Charlie Kirk.
Kirk was one of the most prominent and powerful proponents of the MAGA policy of the Trump government. He also largely made an important contribution to the election victory of President Donald Trump in 2024.
Violence – whether it is Trump, Charlie Kirk, CEOs, Gov. Josh Shapiro or state laws in Minnesota – has to stop.
A view of flowers and photos laid by mourners outside the American embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, on September 11, 2025. (Phill Magakoe/AFP/Getty images)
It must stop now.
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As a country, we have to do more to put an end to the rising tide of political violence that the nation seizes.
Let me be very clear: I have argued as long as I have been in political and public life that we have to lower our volume, lower our temperature and unite.
We have to do more to achieve our common goal as a nation.
That is never true than today.
Certainly, it is misleading to blame the opposite political party for violence when it occurs. This is destructive, division and weakens our social matter at home as well as our state worldwide.
But it does more than that.
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As a nation, we are always proud of our ability to work together – not to agree, yes, but to have a loyal opposition and free debate, no wholesalers that may or may not lead to violence.
In addition, whether certain rhetoric translates into violence or not, it has inevitably contributed to a toxic and division -policy culture that we can no longer accept.
To be honest, when I hear my party, the Democrats, say that they should become more aggressive and hostile to the Republicans, I take major problems with that – both on rhetorical and substantive grounds.
The last thing we need now is a government closure. Notwithstanding what some have said like Ezra Klein in the New York Times, we do not have to fight against the Trump government, simply because of fighting.
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We must argue constructively for protecting the social safety net – Medicare, Medicaid, food programs and other social welfare initiatives – and making everything in order not to close the government, but rather to keep it open.
Similarly, I would tell my Republican friends that it is wrong to demonize left, even when rhetoric is inappropriate and extreme.
I deny it and hope that they will lower their voices, but I believe that the country needs – especially if I write this on 9/11 – a period of reconciliation.
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We must avoid entering an era as we were confronted with in Vietnam in the 1960s, when two of our most important leaders, within a period of two months, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy, meaningless and cheeky were shot.
Allow me to be very clear about what I don’t do here. I try not to blame the left, nor try to blame it.
Although scarce details have emerged, I am not sure the ideology of the shot that Charlie Kirk killed. But for me it is important not to use this as a vehicle for attack or revenge, but as an aid for political reconciliation.
Both Democrats and Republicans can collaborate on things like tighter limits, even if we do not agree with the general immigration policy.
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We can agree that Ukraine needs support, even if we do not agree with the precise nature and its scope. We can agree that we have to protect the social safety net, even if Republicans disagree about which programs should and should not be protected.
And above all we can agree that although both parties can have different opinions about what is best for the United States of America, in our core, Democrats and Republicans all want the country to succeed and blooms.
But what we don’t disagree with is our essential goal as a nation: a free market, capitalist society that works to improve the bigger good for all Americans in a constructive and safe environment.
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Hopefully the inheritance of Charlie Kirk – a proud American, a diligent lawyer and a hunter for what he believed – will lead to a period of greater cooperation and consensus, the friendly President Trump spoke so moving during his speech at the Republican National Convention in 2024 after his own murder.
I say this in the hope that people will not consider it a homily, but as a call for action. Our country never needs unity again, a centralality of goal and a greater willingness on both sides to work with and reconcile.
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