Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, told Newsmax Wednesday that the killing of Turning Point USA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk marked a political turning point, saying it had “crossed the Rubicon.”

Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump who played an influential role in rallying young Republican voters, was shot and killed Wednesday at a Utah college event in what the governor called a political assassination carried out from a rooftop.

“It was something that we don’t see in the United States. And that is Charlie Kirk wasn’t just a brilliant political activist and organizer, but he was also a journalist and media figure,” Hanson said during an appearance on “Finnerty.”

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