Kirk’s Assassination Calls Us to Continue the Conversation

Pardoned Insurrectionists Are Using Charlie Kirk’s Death to Call for Civil War

“Charlie Kirk’s assassination pulled me out of retirement. More work must be done.”In the aftermath of Wednesday’s assassination of right-wing youth leader Charlie Kirk, in the midst of more sober calls for mourning and moderation, many far-right influencers quickly began to call for revenge against the left—whom they blamed for Kirk’s death. They did so even though the shooter still has not been identified, nor their motivations revealed.But it…

After Kirk’s death, scales fall from America’s eyes

I’m haunted, as many are, by the prospect that we may have lost our country for good this week.  In his column on Friday, Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon contrasted the assassination of Charlie Kirk with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler last year. The latter sparked a MAGA renaissance, while Kirk’s death produced “a different feeling of hollow dread.” OPINION: CHARLIE KIRK’S HONORABLE LEGACY OF CIVI…

Kirk’s assassination calls us to continue the conversation

Charlie’s death is more than a personal tragedy — it is a sobering reminder of how political violence is fraying the bonds of our nation. He often said, “When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence, that is when civil war happens.” If you recognized the name Charlie Kirk, you probably had an opinion about him. At 18, he founded conservative organization Turning Point USA and quickly became one of the most important activists of our ge…

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Exclusive: Michael Savage on Kirk’s Assassination — ‘This Is a One-Way Civil War, and the Right Is Being Hunted in Daylight’

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Friday, bestselling author and national radio host Michael Savage warned that the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is not an isolated act of violence but a grim marker of a society unraveling, declaring that “we’re already in the civil war” he first cautioned against more than a decade ago. The post Exclusive: Michael Savage on Kirk’s Assassination — ‘This Is a One-Way Civil War…

After Kirk’s Killing, US Grapples With the Path Forward

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