Disbelief, then anger. Anger, then disbelief.
It’s been less than 24 hours since Charlie Kirk was brutally murdered at a Turning Point USA event in Utah. The coward who murdered him from a rooftop is still at large.
How on earth could this happen?
I never met Charlie Kirk. I was supposed to meet him at AmericaFest in Arizona last December, a month after Donald Trump’s historic election win. We were going to talk about masculinity, about the need for strong men, for testosterone, why strength and virtue are so disparaged in modern society, and what can be done to bring these things back and reinvigorate America with power and purpose.
Frankly, I don’t think there’s anything I could have told Charlie Kirk about masculinity, about being a man, that he didn’t know already. That he didn’t live himself, every day. Charlie Kirk was a man. He was many other great things besides: a husband and father, a Christian and a patriot who embodied so many of values that are in such desperately short supply today—not least of all courage.
When tragedy strikes, it’s normal for us to make it personal. I can’t help doing that now. I wish I had sat down with Charlie and spoken to him. I knew how much he loved to work out, that he was a convert to the benefits of ice baths and copious amounts of sunlight and grass-fed beef. I know it would have been a great conversation and we’d have got along so well.
This tragedy is personal: Freedom-loving patriotic Americans must understand this. Donald Trump has said, more than once, “They’re trying to get to you and I’m just in the way.” Who can doubt that sentiment now? Charlie Kirk was not an extremist, a fascist or anything of the sort. He believed in the ideals of the American founding—liberty, freedom of association and speech, the right indeed the obligation to question authority and orthodoxy, the power of the individual—and he believed they were the wellspring of America’s monumental successes as a nation.
Most of all, he believed that people can and should talk about their differences and try to come to some better understanding of one another. That was the entire purpose of his campus tours and debates: To get people to talk, when their worst instincts and fears, guided by dark forces in the media, academia and politics, told them to hunker down and hurl metaphorical and real rocks at each other.
It’s easy to be cynical about that project—and Lord knows I’ve been cynical about it—but Charlie’s relentless optimism and his willingness to put his ideals and his body on the line can never be doubted, not now. He led by example, like all true leaders.
The immediate effects of this senseless murder are devastating enough. Charlie leaves behind a beautiful wife and two young children. Pray for them. Though they will be surrounded by friends and family and well-wishers, and will receive support from countless people who benefited from Charlie’s work over the last 12 years, there will be a hole—a gaping chasm—in their lives that can never be filled. They will miss Charlie every single day until they see him again, reunited forever in God’s loving embrace.
Charlie Kirk’s murder was a blow for all patriotic Americans, and it bodes terribly for the future of America. Many in the media and on social media are now trying to walk back the despicable things they’ve said about Charlie, about Donald Trump and about anybody who voted for him. They’re trying to pretend they’ve had no role to play since 2016 in creating this nightmare, where the murder of political opponents is becoming a regular feature of American life, but the evidence is there for all to see. Don’t let them forget. Don’t let The Washington Post forget the unmistakable symbolism of its “A Trump Dictatorship Is Increasingly Inevitable” piece, written in late 2023, in which it all-but called for the assassination of Donald Trump by a latter-day Brutus figure. Remember the “basket of deplorables.” Remember the ginned-up controversies about white supremacy, white privilege, systemic racism, Nazism, fascism and the “alt right.” These people and the organisations they represent are guilty as hell. They have blood on their hands.
During live coverage of the attack, news outlets still did their best to smear Charlie, simply because he said things they didn’t like or agree with. They called him “divisive” and “polarising,” even while medics were desperately trying to save his life. They made light of the shooting through barely concealed smiles, suggesting perhaps it was the result of one of his supporters letting off a gun by accident. Though they didn’t say it, they wanted you to know Charlie Kirk deserved what happened to him.
Others, however, are revelling in the chaos. Footage on social media shows a man pumping his fists just yards from where Charlie had been sitting, moments before. Twitter and Bluesky and Reddit and Facebook are awash with vile commentary. Bluesky users are already making their picks for who should be next to catch a bullet.
Should it be Matt Walsh or Chaya Raichik? JD Vance or why not Trump again?
I’d tell you not to pay any attention, to log off and take a walk and think about the things that really matter, but you need to see this. You need to understand what’s at stake here, and the kind of people who are dragging America, with all their might, towards the abyss. People who work in coffee shops and spend their days filling spreadsheets, people who work as teachers and university lecturers and in the Marine Corps cheer for the murder of a man who simply wanted Americans to talk and be grateful for living in the greatest nation on earth.
Whatever the killer’s immediate motive, the message of Charlie’s murder is clear: It’s not just Donald Trump who is now targeted for violence. It’s not just “Orange Hitler” or whoever is supposed to be his Goering, Goebbels or Himmler. It’s the moderates, the patriotic people who, like Charlie Kirk, aren’t ashamed to be American and just want their country back. Tens of millions of Americans who voted for Donald Trump.
I don’t think some kind of civil war is inevitable. I don’t believe anything is inevitable. Now is not the time to surrender to some misguided notion of fate. There will be more violence, no doubt, but America can still be saved.
Charlie Kirk believed America could be saved, and the best way to honour his memory would be to follow his example: to show the same courage and determination he showed, to refuse to be cowed by nihilists and scumbags who hate America and want to see it burn. There is work to be done.
Rest in peace, Charlie.
The plan is to flood Europe, America, and Asia was so-called undesirables from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. This is a Jewish plan to take over the world. Destroy national identity and depopulate the non-Jew. We are seeing this in real time. The colli plan.
The grip is that the controllers are playing both sides to get us to hate one another right versus left as if there were a difference there is none the controllers of this world are playing us like a fiddle, it is the karrais plan,