This past week brought us a lot of troubling news. Not just the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, but the disturbing reaction to it by some on the left, cheering his death. How could anyone be so evil? 

However, some liberals did get how troubling this kind of thought pattern is. Bill Maher, for example, condemned that kind of thinking, specifically calling out the demonizing rhetoric on the left of calling President Donald Trump "Hitler," and saying that can make it easier to justify things like assassination. 

READ MORE: Bill Maher Wrecks the Left on Their Disgraceful Rhetoric After Kirk Assassination

The assassination also appeared to have deeply touched former MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin. Halperin is also the founder of the media platform 2WAY. Like Maher, Halperin is one who is able to see beyond the liberal narrative. As Matt Vespa at our sister site Townhall observed, Halperin was shocked when CNN and MSNBC failed to cover live the emotionally powerful address from Charlie Kirk's wife, Erika. 

“If you thought that my husband’s mission was powerful before, you have no idea what you just unleashed,” she said. “The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.”

READ MORE: 'We Will Never Surrender': Erika Kirk Delivers Powerful Words to America After Her Husband's Killing

Halperin noted that even the BBC was taking it live. 

He was shocked. A foreign corporation recognized the import. CNN and MSNBC probably knew of the import it could have — and maybe that's why they didn't do it. 

Halperin also skewered the hypocrisy of the liberal media being upset that people who cheered Kirk's death are suffering consequences for their statements. 

More outrageous liberal media bias: After years of cheering on the Left/Dominant Media attempts to stifle/punish conservative speech and cancel the lives of those they didn’t like, now the Washington Post and New York Times news desks are positively outraged that the Right is using the same techniques to punish those who have publicly spoken out against Kirk since his murder, often cheering.

All of a sudden, free speech rights are sacrosanct and organized efforts to get someone cancelled are unacceptable.

Amazing.

Halperin also hit on something else I found very powerful in this discussion of the assassination and twisted people cheering, losing their decency, and effectively trying to deny Kirk's humanity. 

An email I just got from a very smart person, who is now smarter, unfortunately because of the assassination of Charlie Kirk:

“I used to think of Trump Derangement Syndrome as just people losing their minds about him specifically and knee jerk hating everything he said or did or enacted. But I now realize that Trump Derangement Syndrome has made people lose their ability to tell the difference between right and wrong.”

That's a huge problem. It's also opening eyes, as with that person. 

Let's compare and contrast with Halperin's last interview with Charlie Kirk, the day before he was assassinated.