Only a handful of Democrats and none of the party’s top leaders attended the ceremony, an outpouring of praise and mourning for the right-wing activist, who was assassinated last week.

The American influencer, assassinated on a university campus in Utah on Wednesday, is being cast as a 'martyr' by many of Europe's nationalist movements, which have condemned 'the…

Republicans' anger at those disrespecting Kirk's legacy contrasts with the mockery some of the same figures – including Kirk – directed at past victims of political violence.