The Kirk Thing Is Not An Economics Problem

 PowerLine's Bill Glahn quotes Codevilla.

 ...America is in the throes of revolution. The 2016 election and its aftermath reflect the distinction, difference, even enmity that has grown exponentially over the past quarter century between America’s ruling class and the rest of the country. During the Civil War, President Lincoln observed that all sides “pray[ed] to the same God.” They revered, though in clashing ways, the same founders and principles. None doubted that those on the other side were responsible human beings. Today, none of that holds. Our ruling class and their clients broadly view Biblical religion as the foundation of all that is wrong with the world....

Glahn goes on:

... the anti-Kirk “elite” (and their clients) appears to go beyond the core group of progressive leftists, antifa types, and Democratic Congresswomen, to encompass a large share of the population that depends (directly or indirectly) on a government paycheck. These include schoolteachers and administrators, medical professionals, media people, etc....

So far, so good, but you can see the flawed analysis in the red-highlighted section above.  Then he goes off the rails:

 ...The dividing line goes beyond mere politics and demographics and may depend on economics.

The more you depend on, are familiar with, find opportunities in the free markets, commerce, capitalism and the like, the less likely that you want your fellow Americans dead or imprisoned for wrongthink.

If you depend on engaging in voluntary financial transactions in an open market against multiple competitors, you find a way of getting along with just about everyone....

Uhhhmnnnnhhh...nope, Bushie.....

You shoulda stuck to the "Biblical" thing.

As it turns out, the assassin was an Antifa-influenced (i.e., Marxist) tranny-sympathetic (i.e., Satanic) type.  Every single aspect of this guy--and the Civil War Codevilla wrote about--has to do with the denial of God; that is to say, "Biblical principles."

'Economics' is the easy way out and more than a little short-sighted.