It was not long after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on Sept. 10 that pitches for monuments to the 31-year-old conservative activist began to surface.

A day after his death, more than a dozen House Republicans circulated a letter calling for a statue of the influencer and organizer at the U.S. Capitol. Within a week, Oklahoma lawmakers introduced legislation requiring every state university campus to put up a Kirk statue in a dedicated square or plaza, and Texas state Republican Rep. Nate Schatzline called for similar legislation for all public campuses in his state.

New College of Florida, a public liberal arts institution that has recently undergone a conservative overhaul, went a step further, announcing it was commissioning a Kirk statue and sharing an AI rendering of how it might loo

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