I had dinner with Charlie Kirk just a few weeks ago. He was a good man, full of life, full of questions, full of zeal. He was a patriot who was doing a lot of good for a lot of people. His instruments for accomplishing this were his ability to organize, and his talent for thoughtfully and peacefully debating fundamental issues on college campuses. He fought with the weapons that free and open societies approve of, and he deeply angered those who hate the very idea of free and open societies.
I would ask everyone who reads these words to say a prayer for his wife Erika, and for his two small children. Ask the Lord to sustain them, and that they would grow up knowing in their bones that their father did not abandon them, but rather died in battle defending them.
Ask the Lord that they would grow up knowing in their bones that their father did not abandon them, but rather died in battle defending them.
As this was such a horrific day, I am sure that there will be many things that will need to be said as the ramifications of this tragedy continue to unfold. But there is one thing that needs to be said now, while we are all still in shock. The shock will wear off in a few days, and I anticipate that it will be replaced by an ominous kind of anger, the kind of anger that is eerily quiet. I would urge everyone to not waste their anger. We need to turn a profit on it.
In the run-up to the presidential election, I think I became somewhat known for saying “don’t take the bait.” By this I meant that we should not do anything that our adversaries were desperately hoping that we would be stupid enough to do. Whatever we did in that line, they would just jump on it, and wrap it around our necks.
I bring this up now because we are way past the time when we need to say “don’t take the bait.” The election in question is past, and it went our way, and it was concern over that election getting dishonestly manipulated or cancelled that was behind my plea. But I believe our positions are now reversed.
It is the progressive left that has now taken the bait. Their addiction to violence as the key to everything they want and petulantly demand is now impossible to deny. They will try to deny it anyway, and so now is the time for us to accept nothing less than absolute and unconditional surrender. For the clear-headed, the left’s love of violence was impossible to deny years ago, but they had enough capital left with the media to brazen it out. We are in a position now to point out that their shifts and evasions now sound as lame as they have always actually been. This was a political murder and it is not out of line to treat it as though it were a political murder. This means that everyone on the left needs to answer for this politically. And stop living by lies.