David Schweikert: “instead of an hour of another economics presentation, we need to have a conversation. Is the evil winning? A couple of…”

“instead of an hour of another economics presentation, we need to have a conversation. Is the evil winning? A couple of hours ago, one of my constituents lost his life. There is a 16-month-old whose daddy is not coming home. There is a 3-year-old little girl whose daddy is not coming home. Erika, the wife, can you just imagine what is going on right now? Do we really now live in a country where words take your life? Last weekend, it was either Monday or the weekend--and Andy will know the proper name. There is a newspaper called the Beehive or something like that--forgive me for not knowing the name--and it actually did a whole expose on Charlie Kirk coming to universities in Utah to actually spread his message. If you actually read it, it was a classic conservative message of hope, of loving people, of believing marriage and prosperity were really good for Americans, and a message for young people. The other half of the article was about how many people in Utah hated this message and what they would do to stop him because, as you know, having a conversation now is--particularly, if it is conversation that doesn't support collectivism, the left, and some weird dystopian view of what America is--your kids don't have a dad that comes home. Look, I am not here to try to make this a drama. Maybe we hyperpersonalized it a little bit. I have a 3-year-old little boy at home, and I have a 9-year-old girl. My little girl is scared to death.…”