MICHAEL GOODWIN: Charlie Kirk's assassination is the result of a decade of anti-Trump rhetoric from the Left.

It’s also worth noting that the Kirk murder took place during the Florida trial of Ryan Wesley Routh, the man charged with plotting to assassinate Trump on a Florida golf course a year ago.

Routh, representing himself, used part of his opening defense last week to cite political violence in other countries, and mentioned Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and, of course, Hitler.

A federal prosecutor, John Shipley, put the case in more basic terms by telling the judge and jury that Routh “wanted to make sure that the people of this country could not could not elect Donald Trump as president of the United States.”

Shipley added: “So the defendant decided to take the choice away from American voters.”

That line neatly sums up the war against Trump and the evil mindset behind the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Voters can’t be trusted, so a leftist with a gun will make the decision.

The last sentence says it all.