
17/09/2025
Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise.
Klein's distortion, with its bottomless indulgence of bad faith, is accidentally a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump.
The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA