Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk (Sky/File)
EA on International Outlets: What Charlie Kirk’s Killing Means for a Damaged America
I joined RTE Radio 1’s Brendan O’Connor Show on Sunday for a 55-minute analysis of the week in politics, from the US to Ireland to Ukraine.
The other panellists are science and technology journalist Elaine Burke; Pat Leahy of the Irish Times; and Brenda Power of the Irish Daily Mail and Sunday Times.
The first half of the discussion is devoted to the aftermath of the murder of hard-right activist Charlie Kirk, examining how Trumpists and the far right are seizing on the event to push for an extension of their power with “war” upon their “enemies”.
Kirk serves for certain people as a martyr. He serves the Trump camp’s projection that they are running against an “enemy within”.
They go after the courts. They go after universities. They go after non-government organizations. They go after those who pursue women’s rights and civil rights.
I listen as the panel consider development in the forthcoming campaign for the Irish Presidency.
And I set out the significance of Russia’s drone incursion into Poland — for Warsaw, for NATO, and for Ukraine.
