Posted on 11/22/2025 5:28:14 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
The 22-year-old accused of murdering Charlie Kirk came from a stable family in a thriving town. But that wasn’t enough…
That is the lesson of Tyler Robinson. And lurking behind that lesson: the fear that every teenager in America is a would-be Tyler Robinson, always vulnerable to the forces of death and nihilism.
“How had he lost so much of his soul?” Utah governor Spencer Cox asked me about Robinson. We were in his office at the state Capitol. He didn’t know what to make of the “meme culture” that Robinson had been a part of, and the flood of videos and posts and inside jokes “about self-harm, about hate and radicalization, about violence” that had washed across his screens every day. He wondered what “that inundation does to the adolescent brain, especially the adolescent male brain.”
“I truly believe that we are poisoning them,” Cox added…
Robinson had grown up in a Mormon home, and he had been an excellent student—in 2021, he matriculated at Utah State University, on a $32,000 presidential scholarship. But then, after just one semester in the pre-engineering program, he dropped out. It was unclear why.
After he dropped out of college, Robinson moved back to Washington and became an apprentice electrician. Something was clearly wrong—there had been a “gap,”, a break from the high-achieving, upwardly mobile trajectory he had been on in Logan. But still—if there was anywhere he could repair that, it was here in Washington, where there were still intact nuclear families, and the Protestant work ethic was thriving, and there was a community held together by the Latter-day Saints—the Mormons—and solid public schools and basketball leagues and football leagues and missions and a faith in America, the future.
And there were the Robinsons…
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Television
Movies
Video Games.
Next question.
Social media
Public school
I suspect he was seduced by BJs from his “roommate”.
All his college experience told him it completely normal.
Oswald supposedly had an inflatable love doll so there’s that.
no God?
Lots of weird mental stuff happens to people in their early 20s it seems like. I feel so lucky to get through that period of my life without opioids, smart phones and social media, the ubiquitous porn pandemic, and the really strong weed/THC extract products that would have made it worse had they been available.
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No real love for God in his life. No God. Simple answer.
That age is when schizophrenia sets in, too. Not sure how to stop it, but discouraging drug abuse would help. I don’t know that he abused drugs.
Robinson, Crooks, & Mangione… 40% chance these cases actually amount to what they’re being made out to be — not impossible, but I’m not convinced
This is a brilliant observation of the problem now facing us, which will only get worse due to AI deep fakery.
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