not just the right-wing media, half of centrist punditry was convinced that this was somehow going to be game-changing, out of a combination of affinity, idiocy, and their deep desire to surrender to perceived power.
Zoomer AntimillenarianI think the aftermath of the Kirk shooting really proves just how desensitized ordinary Americans have gotten to low-intensity gun violence, which to be fair is in part his own damn fault. To the right-wing media, though, the fact one of their own could get cut down like this was a genuine trauma.