Alex Wagner

Well, but you know, I think there's like the person and then there's the gesture.

And to me, at least, it was like, God, there's been so much finger pointing.

There's been so much rage stood up around this.

There's a president who's taken it as a moment to, you know, go after left wing radicals.

I thought it was actually like I thought whatever the motivations and the timeline for someone to call for forgiveness, difficult forgiveness in a time when we seem so incapable of forgiving anything.

I actually thought it was like a profound moment as as just the gesture itself, you know.

And I, you know, I, I find a lot of things appalling about what Charlie Kirk was talking about, but just, it's been so long that we've heard that, um, kind of like just notion that, you know, to be, to be, to offer kindness in a moment of peril is anyway, that's, that's just me.

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