I don’t like Nazis. I don’t like racists. I can’t stand Communists.

But I don’t think we should shoot them.

One of the many wonderful things about the American ideal is that we have a free marketplace of ideas. We all get to speak our minds. If we are persuasive, we can change minds. If we are not, we can be ignored.

But for the last 20-something years, the Left in America has been dragging us down a slippery slope of Cancel Culture.

If I don’t like you; if I disagree with your ideas; if your worldview irritates me – well, I’ll just gather a crowd and we will shout you down at your event.

We’ll harass you while you’re dining at a restaurant. We’ll stage a protest outside your home. We’ll dox you publicly to make it easier for nut-jobs to find you and threaten your family.

What makes a person so arrogant, so convinced of their own infallibility, that they actively hate anyone who disagrees with them?

I’ve lost friendships over politics. I’ve known people who just could not stand the fact that I would not agree with them about X, Y, or Z. The longer the discussion, the more enraged they would become.

And predictably, once they ran out of arguments, the name calling would begin. If you had the nerve to disagree with them, you were a bigot, homophobe, xenophobe, whatever.

And then they end the discussion, end the relationship, and cut you out of their lives. Because you do not agree with them, you must be marginalized.

Charlie Kirk was so hated by the Left that some of them are basically celebrating his assassination. This is so far beyond the pale that it staggers my mind. It is a sickening display of how depraved our politics have become.

Gone are the days when we could respectfully disagree. Gone is our tolerance for dissenting opinions. Cancel Culture has erased all that.

And now, Cancel Culture has erased Charlie Kirk.