India, Sept. 18 -- Polarising politics and the normalisation of hate in American public life may just have cost Donald Trump's popular supporter, Charlie Kirk, his life. The ultra-right-wing activist and CEO of Turning Point was shot dead whilst addressing an audience at Utah Valley University as part of his controversial American Comeback Trip across campuses.

Famous or even infamous as the cheerleader for the Trump brand of politics, Kirk had expounded contentiously on matters like climate change, the civil rights movement, minorities, gun control, LGBTQ etc, that valorised Trump's regressive stands on each of these issues. Ironically, despite a surge in shooting incidents across campuses and schools, Kirk had recklessly conflated the ...