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Utah governor: ‘Never forget’ isn’t enough. America needs to remember how to be one

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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox wondered aloud during Friday’s 9/11 remembrance ceremony whether the United States of America could still come together in unity if the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks happened today, 25 years later. He is not so sure it could. Amid corrosive distrust, radicalism and deteriorating institutions, the question is not if a similar tragedy would descend into a tribal tit-for-tat between political parties, but whether it would take a week, or an hour, Cox said. Following the one-year mark of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Thursday, the 25th anniversary of 9/11 has confronted Cox with the disappointing depth of American polarization. Conspiracism and contempt have become increasingly mainstream as some conservatives, like Tucker Carlson, cast doubt on the official narrative of the crises, and some progressives, like Hasan Piker, openly mock them. 2 anchors, 25 years later: The morning we broke the 9/11 news As he re

First report: Timeline: Here’s what’s happened in the year since Charlie Kirk was killed in Utah — sltrib.com, 5d