As the line from, IIRC, Star Trek went, having is not always as satisfying as wanting.
Dems and Progs have for years fantasized about exactly such an assassination. Now that one happened, they're learning that even many Dem voters abhor this fulfilled wish. Not foreseeing that is like having your head up your @$$ so far that you see the world from behind your teeth.
BTW, Erika Kirk looks to be a formidable lady (Widow Grizzly?), and many Christians and social-political conservatives have been energized, not cowed, by this. Pyrrhus might be face-palming in Hades.