KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Assassination and the Watershed Radicalization of the American Right. “Yes, the assassination of Charlie Kirk has pushed people to places that they never wanted to be pushed to. My use of the word watershed in the headline was deliberate because it means ‘turning point.’ People were already emotionally raw over the brutal murder of Iryna Zarutska; Kirk’s public execution is too much to process with anything but righteous anger.”