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Charlie Kirk was assassinated for the same opinions I hold.

This is an observation I cannot escape, and one that robbed me of sleep last night.

Charlie’s critics would have you believe he was “far-right”. Actually, he was nothing of the sort.

Charlie Kirk was a vanilla conservative. He believed in the right to life, traditional marriage, merit over race, secure borders, and small government.

He was also a passionate defender of free speech and open debate. It was this conviction that prompted him to found Turning Point USA (TPUSA) — a multimillion dollar nonprofit credited with winning hundreds of thousands of young and restless college students to commonsense conservatism. Indeed, TPUSA played a pivotal role in flipping the youth vote red in 2024, where support among 18-29-year-olds swung 21 points, helping Trump take back the White House.

Charlie Kirk loved debate because he hated violence. He believed America’s deep cultural and spiritual problems could be resolved by giving a hearing to even the worst ideas and persuading people with the truth.

In a video that’s gone viral since his death, he explains that he toured American colleges persuading young people because “when people stop talking, that’s when you get violence, that’s when civil war happens”.

I saw this video this morning on my feed and I think it so eloquently explains what Charlie Kirk was put on this earth to do.

“When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence, that is when civil war happens” pic.twitter.com/ZNqp7qMQcC

— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) September 10, 2025

Charlie stuck to his convictions but always engaged his opponents respectfully. In such a way, he represented the very best that American politics has to offer — an antidote to violence; a release valve in a country heating up.

Killing Charlie — and offering a defence for his death, as many have done — is a terrible tactical error if you claim to prefer peaceful politics. And doing so while he was engaged in the very act of debating? There’s nothing more cynical.

As many have observed, the bullet shot by Charlie’s assassin was the ultimate confession that his ideas were better — able only to be countered by brute force.

I’ve been told the reason Donald Trump is so bitterly hated is because he’s rude, bombastic, spiteful to his enemies, and a hypocrite for defending Christian values despite an obviously un-Christian past.

Charlie Kirk safely avoids all such accusations. He was a loving and faithful husband, a father adored by his two children, a steadfast leader, and a man praised even by his enemies. Yet he was assassinated anyway.

So I return to that thought circling in my mind. Charlie Kirk was assassinated for the same opinions I hold.

But by who?

Transgender and “antifascist” ideology appears to form part of the killer’s motive, with Fox News, Axios, the New York Post and other legacy media outlets reporting the assassin was in a romantic relationship with his transgender-identifying roommate, and quoting a family member concerned Charlie’s killer had become radicalised in recent years.

It may be some time before we learn more about the assassin’s motive, but even when those answers come, they’ll only form part of the picture. Charlie Kirk’s murder did not take place in a vacuum.

Conservatives have been dehumanised in elite circles for decades. “They get bitter and cling to guns or religion,” Barack Obama scoffed in 2008. During her 2016 White House run, Hillary Clinton derided Trump’s base as a “basket of deplorables… racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it”. Joe Biden, on the campaign trail in 2018, called them “the dregs of society”.

From there, the rhetoric only escalated. During Biden’s infamous Red Speech in 2022, he declared “MAGA Republicans” — of whom Charlie Kirk was undeniably a figurehead — a “threat to democracy” and to “the very foundations of our republic”. By this time, an entire genre of bloodthirsty discourse was flooding the internet. I have documented dozens of examples of it here.

Here’s 60 Straight Seconds Of Democrat Leaders Calling For An Uprising & The Assassination of Donald Trump (No FBI Raids, No Indictments)

“I don’t know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country & maybe there will be”
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“People need to start taking to the streets. This is a… pic.twitter.com/DR7H9CD9aT

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) August 9, 2023

Yes, anyone can find examples of untempered speech on both sides of politics, but the uncomfortable truth for US Democrats is that it’s coming not from their fringes but their frontlines. Donors, celebrities, congressmen, media pundits and more queued up to call Trump a Nazi, a fascist, and Hitler reincarnate right up to the moment an assassin almost felled him in the fields of Butler, Pennsylvania. And after a brief pause of national reflection, they resumed the name-calling in earnest.

It was Charlie Kirk himself who, in April of this year, pointed out that “assassination culture is spreading on the left”.

“Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk,” he explained in a now-eerie post on X, citing alarming research reported by Fox News. “Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump.” Charlie continued:

The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response. This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end.

It’s for all these reasons that I have little patience for generic denunciations of violence in the wake of Charlie’s death. The only serious people are the ones clearly identifying where it’s coming from, who’s inciting it, and why.

The sickness is not in my culture. My culture is Christianity. Patriotism. Loving my family. Going to church on Sunday. Having vigorous, forthright debate. That’s there’s nothing sick in that culture. The culture of Christian conservatism. The sickness is in the left’s culture.… https://t.co/mJIEvbLvRm

— Megan Basham (@megbasham) September 11, 2025

So if you’re unclear on this, let me spell it out. A student who witnessed Charlie Kirk’s assassination reported that a group of his opponents in the crowd cheered when he was shot.

Talking heads in the legacy media indulged in ritual victim-blaming, suggesting that Charlie had invited his own demise by the views he expressed.

BlueSky, a platform widely billed as the left’s compassionate alternative to X, was reportedly a hotbed of hate this week — Daily Wire journalist Megan Basham said that upon searching for Charlie Kirk’s name, every single post “was either laughing at, sneering at, or suggesting there was something ironic in his death”.

Matt Walsh, a conservative commentator with a profile almost up there with Charlie’s, displayed a rash of screenshots from left-leaning accounts calling for his murder next.

Chris Rufo, a conservative activist not often given to hyperbole, mourned Friday that “the number of people celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death who work as teachers, nurses, psychologists, social workers, and other ‘helping professions’ is immensely disturbing”.

Once again, the spite is coming not just from the margins but the mainstream. When George Floyd died, Congressional Democrats donned African kente stoles and bowed low at his golden casket. When Charlie Kirk was shot, Republicans requested a moment of prayer in the House and prominent Democrats booed and hissed at the suggestion.

Similar scenes unfolded in parliaments across the Western world, where “progressive” leaders indulged partisanship over humanity. In the European Parliament, Polish MEP Dominik Tarczyński requested a minute of silence for Charlie Kirk and was shouted down. In New Zealand’s parliament, the Greens and Labour blocked a motion for the same.

Some of the most obscene displays took place here in Australia. Former NSW Premier Bob Carr went on a Twitter tirade against Charlie Kirk’s political views while his body was still warm. Former Labor staffer Dr Adam Carr declared “death to fascists”. “I hate Charlie Kirk,” social media personality Abbie Chatfield assured her fans, even if his murder was “bad for everyone”. Satirical news outfit The Chaser — founded by the taxpayer-funded ABC — gloated over Charlie’s death with this disgusting headline:

The Chaser gloating over Charlie Kirk being shot in the neck and bleeding out to death in front of his family. They’ve turned off comments. Share this around so they disgrace themselves all around the world. https://t.co/RgbVcvALuB pic.twitter.com/lQeJTRFzHy

— Stephen Chavura (@ChavuraStephen) September 11, 2025

Perhaps the worst remarks came from 26-year-old media darling Hannah Ferguson, who recently interviewed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and enjoys ready access to the National Press Club. She gleefully justified Charlie’s assassination, writing:

Am I glad Charlie Kirk will no longer spread his extremist messaging? Yes.
Am I happy that someone shot him in the neck in broad daylight? No.
Do I believe he empowered the violence that ended his life? Yes.
Do I believe he caused more harm than good? Yes.
Is violence sometimes necessary? Yes.

Charlie Kirk never spoke this way about his ideological opponents. But he did ruthlessly critique their twisted worldview. And given how they’ve responded to his murder, you can see why he felt the need to.

What Charlie was up against is a demonic belief system that seeks the death of children before they exit the womb, the poisoning of their minds, the mutilation of their bodies, and the destruction of their souls. It’s a worldview that divides people by race, enrages them with grievance, glorifies sexual deviancy, destroys marriage and family, crushes dissent, and wages war on the God in whose image we are made.

Realise that “misinformation” laws are animated by the same impulse as the bullet that killed Charlie Kirk.

Namely:

We can’t win the debate, so we’ll silence you instead.

— Kurt Mahlburg (@k_mahlburg) September 11, 2025

In short order, Western Marxism has become the hegemonic ideology of our flailing civilisation. Karl Marx pitted the poor against the rich, inciting violent political revolutions across the non-Western world that piled corpses 100 million high. His disciples in the West understood that the twin pillars of Christianity and capitalism had to fall if the same could be enacted here. Ever since, they’ve sought to collapse both by pitting women against men, black against white, “queer” against normal, and indigenous against “coloniser”. We’re not quite at revolution stage yet, but the Marxists have captured our institutions, and this week, they were baying for blood.

Charlie Kirk’s eyes were open to this diabolical paradigm, and he opposed with every breath. That’s why they shot him.

Charlie saw what so many Christian leaders have preferred to ignore. Men like Charlie Kirk have soared in popularity precisely because pastors went silent on the crucial questions of our time. Fooled by the lies of the Marxist media, too many shepherds have baptised a mass mental illness as an equally valid political outlook. Too many Christian leaders have shrugged off the growing tension between truth and insanity as a distraction and a “culture war”. Worse, a growing number of them have taken the wrong side in that war entirely.

Charlie understood that we’re not just in a culture war — we’re in a spiritual war. The mainstream political left, along with many traditionally right-of-centre political parties, now advance an agenda that is completely antithetical to New Testament Christianity.

In the United States, love him or hate him, Donald Trump has restored a somewhat recognisably Christian worldview, first back into the Republican fold, and then into the most powerful parliament in the world. Perceiving this in 2016, Charlie Kirk championed it, refusing to equate a Christian’s political outlook with a preference between ice cream flavours.

He did so always keeping his Christian faith front and centre, and winning a level of global respect that has only become apparent after his passing.

As Australian academic and historian Stephen Chavura has astutely pointed out, “the cultured Christian despisers of political conservatism and… culture war discourse have been telling us for years that everything Charlie embodied will just alienate people”. And yet:

All over social media I’m finding literally thousands of people who are grieving Charlie Kirk. In my own private life I have friends who aren’t regular church-attenders who are grieving Charlie Kirk and had watched his reels over the years. Normal people who may not have opened a Bible or cast a shadow in a church for years are grieving this man who meant something to them.

Addressing “all the cultured despisers of the culture wars”, Chavura continues:

The paradigm you so pooh poohed for years as a side-show at best, and maybe even a freak show, is actually the main event. It was Charlie Kirk, a man with no university degree, who was a MAGA supporter, with a simple American-style message about Jesus that captured the attention of mass culture in a way that the learned teachers of “cultural engagement” have so laughably failed at doing over the past 20 years.

Charlie Kirk’s death has taught us a lot of things.

Yes, he was assassinated for the same opinions I hold. His murder is a sobering reminder that being a Christian today isn’t dangerous unless you’re a conservative one.

His death a signpost that political terrorism — and the impulses that drive it — have been thoroughly mainstreamed in the West’s insurgent political movements. It’s a wake-up call that Christian martyrdom is, once again, part and parcel of living in a pagan civilisation.

But none of this is why Charlie Kirk will be remembered.

Far more importantly than anything he opposed, Charlie loved the truth. He loved Jesus Christ, who died for his sins and secured him everlasting life. He loved his family. He loved the people with whom he disagreed. And he loved his country and civilisation enough to dedicate his life to its renewal.

Jesus defeated death so you can live.

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 6, 2025

The blood of martyrs is seed. Today, many Marxists — including in the media — are dancing on Charlie’s grave. But a generation of young people raised on nihilism have had enough.

Look at the faces of these young Americans fleeing seconds after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

Look closely.

They are tomorrow’s leaders.

The Marxist Left doesn’t understand the sleeping giant that has just awoken. pic.twitter.com/NMysBcRAUa

— Kurt Mahlburg (@k_mahlburg) September 11, 2025

They are rediscovering the Christianity of their forebears as the anchor for their personal identity, the means by which their civilisation can be restored, and the source of eternal hope that will outlast this world. Vast hordes of them will now follow in Charlie’s footsteps.

Charlie’s death is an incredible tragedy. But it’s also a turning point.

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Image courtesy of Unsplash. A previous version of this article cited a Wall Street Journal report about possible transgender engravings on the ammunition found inside the rifle likely used in the murder, which has since been partially retracted.