President Donald Trump was the final speaker at Charlie Kirk's memorial service, capping off six hours of an intensely evangelical, borderline nationalist Christian revival. He entered with the biggest pyrotechnics of the day while Lee Greenwood himself serenaded him live with "God Bless the USA." And the moment he began to speak, I noticed something odd: people were already streaming toward the exits.

It was curious, for up until that point, the crowd of 70,000, packed to the gills of the State Farm Stadium in Arizona, had been completely enraptured. Trump had followed pastors who'd spoken about Kirk's faith, influencers who'd exhorted the …

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