Imagine your most cherished political figure was also your cultural north star and pastoral life coach. Now imagine he was felled by an assassin’s bullet. Then imagine there were millions of you.

That explains the tens of thousands of people, including President Donald Trump and the highest-ranking officials of the U.S. government, packing a football stadium Sunday to eulogize conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Trump, Vice President JD Vance; Mike Johnson, speaker of the House of Representatives; several Cabinet officials and Republican members of Congress — many had a genuine affection for Kirk. But even if not, they still would have attended, such was the admiration and reverence Kirk commanded across not only the GOP and Trump’s MAGA base, but across the broader conservative movement.

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