How the Right Reacted to Charlie Kirk's Death
At one point yesterday evening I was sitting on my phone processing the videos of Charlie Kirk’s murder and the news about 47th school shooting this year. At the same time I was reading news of NATO being called in to aid Poland in fighting off Russian drones and watching posts about Kamala Harris’s regrets from the 2024 election.
It all felt like too much. An overwhelming storm of information, a hurricane of fear and rage that defines American life in 2025.
And in the middle of it all, Charlie Kirk. A man who wore 1776 (a call to war) in his Instagram handle for years. Now dead, shot in the neck while speaking on a college campus. A political assassination that will reverberate across the political landscape.
We should not have to live in a country where gun violence of this nature is a very real and terrifying possibility. This is not righteous. This is not freedom. This is not the country we deserve.
And yet here we are.
Kirk himself once said that deaths are the cost of the Second Amen…