Now that the performative grieving is over, the Christianity as stage show, the politicians weeping into cameras like wrestlers entering the ring, we can finally talk about Charlie Kirk. About what he said. What he built. And what his words did. The “New Republican Party” turned mourning into marketing. Faith into theater.

I’m not one of his disciples or his enemies in theory. I fought in Ukraine. I have friends buried in unmarked soil, their bodies burned and left behind. For me, his rhetoric wasn’t entertainment. It was the sound of people learning to stop caring whether we lived or died.

Charlie Kirk made it his mission to undermine that war effort. It is a rich irony from a man who believed his highest form of service was chasing social media clout and courting wealthy donors. While

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