I heard a couple of liberals talking about this at work just now. They were both appalled at the shooting, and were not cheering it as so many liberals did. However, they both think that many of Kirk's views were "sickening", such as things he said about trannies. They thought Kirk was preaching a harsh, critical form of Christianity, and that their idea of Christianity is that it should be compassionate. The one I know is not a Christian, in spite of having ideas of what Christians should believe. I don't know about the other. He might consider himself a Christian, but of the liberal "In this house we believe" type.
The people on Twitter started out this week saying they've never been so radicalized after seeing the Iryna Zarutska murder. Then Kirk was killed and they are all ready for open civil war. They're ready to go on offensive against the liberals in society. However, I'm afraid a very large percentage of Americans thinks like my co-workers. They have "modern" secular view about many of these issues, and think that people that are opposed to trannies, gays, abortions, illegal immigrants, or anti-gun laws are all monsters.
It's very frustrating to realize how many people have this kind of wrong headed mindset. It's not just the hard left extremists that are the most visible. There are a lot of normies that also hold the same views but in a less militant form.
I don't know that the right can actually fight back and turn things around at this point. I think we've still got a long period of weak men make hard times before we get to hard times make strong men. However, it's still worth fighting back harder than we have been.