Of course I read how the complete right wing reacted to the murder.

But yesterday was the first time I listened to a few select clips fom some speeches praising & mourning him.

It was something else entirely.

They sounded what this statue looks like: an amateur imitation of something that happened 100 years ago. MAGA Neoclassicism.

BTW history does not claim martyrdom for John F Kennedy, a very similar case, except the victim was actually a decent person.