After Charlie Kirk’s Murder, There Can Be No More Both-Sides-ism:
We have met the enemy, and they are nothing like us.
There are a lot of reasons Charlie Kirk was effective. An underrated one is his grasp of who the enemy was, who it wasn’t, and how to aim the considerable amount of organizational and oratory resources at his disposal.
In the years since his early days of talking about “debt and deficit,” Kirk’s grasp of the battle he was fighting had obviously crystallized. Of his many roles, one of his most influential was as a thought leader, framing the conversation about how to protect the country he loved in a way that helped others understand what time it was. He steered his many listeners away from foolish distractions on the internet and toward real things, like getting married and having children, devoting their lives to Christ, and using their spheres of influence to put real points on the board.
His death is a great loss, not just for his friends, but for the future of the conservative movement. Communicators like Kirk will be needed as the right continues to break away from the tired talking points of a failed establishment and refashions itself as the vibrant intellectual home of patriots who want their children to inherit the country their forefathers built. Kirk was smart enough to understand the endgame and articulate enough to bring others along with him.
In death as in life, he has had a crystallizing effect. If you didn’t understand that there exist evil forces on the left who want you dead because you believe the same things Charlie did, you should now. Understand that a significant subset of people on the left are celebrating the death of a husband and father who stood for the same things you do, and understand that they will not be assuaged by generic words about unity because they do not want unity with you.
Understand, also, that the shooter did not come to exist in a vacuum. Directly or indirectly, he is a product of the financiers of domestic terror groups like Antifa, who promulgate ideologies of violence like those Kirk’s assassin reportedly engraved on his shell casings. His ilk are radicalized by the media and other Democrats who incite political violence by engaging in breathless character assassination against people like Kirk, smearing them as Nazis and threats to democracy for no other crime than peacefully trying to change minds. Young people like him are driven to darkness by the gruesome false gospel of transgenderism and its clerics, who teach their adherents to hate the very image of God. Every investigative, prosecutorial, and persuasive power at our disposal should be used to constrain such actors from precipitating more violence.
It’s important for everyone in the crosshairs of the same ideology that killed Kirk to recognize what we are up against. It should be obvious that the greatest threat to the right is the people who want to shoot us dead. There are strategic and productive ways to fight that threat, like investigating the NGOs funding Antifa activity or investigating groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center that place targets on organizations like Kirk’s by labeling them “hate groups.” --->READ MORE HERE
Nolte: Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Flipped a Remarkable Switch in the MAGA Movement:
What the left’s public execution of Charlie Kirk has done to mobilize the MAGA movement is something I never expected to see.
For more than 20 years, I’ve been a part of the conservative movement. Never a mover or shaker, but a cog happy to be overpaid to do my part. And an observer. Always an observer.
Last week, after the terrible news arrived that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk had been assassinated, I observed something remarkable. It was so remarkable, it’s difficult to find the words, but I’ll try…
It was as if some years ago someone downloaded a computer program directly into the fractured and fragile right-of-center movement, a movement that has always been balkanized and squabbling over territory. This computer program sat there a long time waiting for a specific thing to happen, and when it did happen, a switch within each of us was flipped, and a miracle occurred.
We didn’t require a leader. There were no talking points issued. It just… happened.
All at once…
- We understood what had changed forever and why.
- We mobilized.
- We prepared for action.
- We instinctively knew what that action would be.
- We knew we had the power to take that action.
- We took that action and are doing so effectively.
- We share an unprecedented resolve.
- We’re in it for the long term, forever if needed.
And here’s the healthiest part of what’s happening: No one is standing around helplessly complaining about how the regime media aren’t fair. No one’s crybabying about media bias. No one’s wringing their hands that the media aren’t doing to the left what they always do to us. Instead, based entirely on group instinct, we instantly understood that it was up to us to hold accountable those who celebrate Charlie Kirk’s murder and those on the organized left (Democrats, media, academia, etc.) who put a fatwa on Charlie Kirk and the rest of us with their 24/7 “Nazi” and “fascist” and “white supremacist” talk.
This has never happened on our side before. The corporate media have lived in our heads forever, but the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk finally evicted those demons.
Today, we have arrived at a place that seemed impossible 20 years ago… The media no longer hold power over us. The media no longer matter. At long last, and after decades of hard work, with the flip of that switch, we realized that we have the power now, and what a joy it is to watch us effectively use that power to hold evil accountable, welcome converts, and mobilize against the wicked forces that seek our spiritual and physical destruction. --->READ MORE HERE
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