Donald Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, said Trump could have used his speech from the Oval Office to condemn all forms of political violence and emphasise the importance of tolerance as a “cornerstone for democracy”.
He didn’t do that. “I worry that the White House has missed an opportunity by framing this in a one-sided way, presenting threats as only coming from the left,” he said. “The worst-case scenario is . . . that the murder of Kirk is used to justify a government crackdown on protected speech.”
