The assassination of Charlie Kirk was a shock to our nation, as a popular and well-known conservative voice was silenced. Charlie’s death profoundly affected conservatives who had embraced him as one of their leaders. He acted as a representative of all the conservatives who sit on their hands and don’t engage with the left. The skill led Trump to suggest he could become president someday. Following Charlie’s death, many on the left are gleeful, claiming he got what he deserved.
We’re used to politicians being targeted, but not private individuals seeking dialogue rather than confrontation.
Charlie’s death is the most important political assassination of this century and, except for the elections and wars, the most important political event since the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. It’s an inflection point that may move conservatives and the rest of America in a new direction. His murder was a lightning bolt to awaken the right.
Kirk sought to create dialogue with college students for the purpose of increasing their understanding of politics. In addition, his movement sought to engage conservative students who were being silenced by the left-wing ideology propaganda operating in the halls of academia.
You may think me hyperbolic, but consider the following. The Turning Point Organization represents one of the two most important movements in 21st-century America, the other being the MAGA movement. Charlie Kirk succeeded by teaching college students to think, and many of them came to realize that the right has a more rational ideology than the radical left. The Republican Party has always done a poor job of relating to and recruiting young people, and Charlie changed that.
He contributed mightily to Trump’s election last year. Trump may not have won without the shift in voting preferences of America’s younger generations.
Most importantly, Charlie was out front fighting against the radical left, trying to rebalance the cultural narrative in America. He was a Christian on a mission. Conservatives are not fighters, and they allow themselves to be dominated by the left. They want to live their lives in peace, but don’t understand the risks of staying silent. Charlie was the person who overcame conservative complacency and put himself out there.
The left will never understand why Charlie was important to conservatives, because they have no use for traditional American values.
He was a militant Christian, meaning that he laid out his message forcefully. That forcefulness angered the left, who expect conservatives to bow to their superior ideology. Recently, Charlie had been receiving death threats. He realized his life was in danger, but he kept on broadcasting his message anyway. The same thing happened to an early 30s militant Christian 2000 years ago, who was killed by jealous demons for his beliefs.
The right and left are now accusing each other of inciting violence. The right blames left rhetoric (Hitler, Fascist, threat to democracy used against Trump). The left blames Trump because he calls people names. I don’t recall Trump advocating violence against anyone. Perhaps the left reads more into Trump’s words than they should.
Many people have lost their jobs because they celebrated Charlie’s death on social media. They must have figured that cancel culture only applied to conservatives, but they forgot that they are not in power. Remember that Roseanne got fired for one tweet.
The left has been censoring conservatives for two decades now, and that is profoundly wrong. Now they are calling out conservatives for doing the same thing, but conservatives should not take the bait. They must fight back with all the tools at their disposal, because the future of the country is at stake. Left ideology is firmly embedded in our institutions and must be rooted out. If conservatives do not succeed, their preferred way of life will be left to read about in the history books when America becomes a globalist/neoliberal enterprise.
Charlie Kirk wrote and put into motion the playbook for conservatives, and now they need to keep it moving forward. Traditional values, family, and religious beliefs must prevail over the socialists, secularists, neoliberal/globalists, and preachers of hate.
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