Why is America so polarized? I can tell you

Ihad a different column planned for this week -- on the same topic that’s in the title. But not five minutes before I sat down to write it, I heard that conservative commentator Charlie Kirk had been shot in the neck at a speaking event in Utah.

Before I could get even a few paragraphs completed, it was announced he had died.

I’m sickened by this. Charlie was just 31 years old. A devout Christian. A…