When the Applause Is for a Killing

From McCarthyism to the Ottawa Convoy shows how fear and violence shrink the civic square.

I’ve struggled to write this.

Not because there is nothing to say, but because there’s too much, and because the ugliest part of the past few weeks has not been the tragedy, but the celebration.

The memes, the jokes, the unguarded glee at a political enemy’s death have been harder to look at than the news alerts.

This isn't who we are supposed to be.

Wh…