My mind has wandered a lot today, and often to Erika Kirk and her children. As we mark the first anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, I cannot imagine how hard today must be for those who knew and loved Charlie. What happened in Utah last year was an eye-opening moment for many of us.
Political violence from the Left was nothing new, of course. We’d had mass shootings carried out by “trans identifying” or “gender nonfluid” individuals; we’ve endured terrorist attacks like the one in D.C. that killed National Guard Spec. Sarah Beckstrom and left U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe seriously wounded. In Michigan, Ayman Mohammad Ghazali was inspired by Hezbollah to try and kill Jewish children at a synagogue, an act that Abdul El-Sayed dismissed as simply a case of “hurt people hurt people.”
But rarely have American leftists reveled in and celebrated the cold-blooded murder of a conservative. Sure, when someone dies — like Rush Limbaugh or Lindsey Graham — the ghouls come out to play on social media, but they soon retreat back into their parents’ basements to play Xbox and stuff their faces with Cheetos.
With Charlie Kirk, it took an entirely different flavor of vile. They celebrated his death, said he deserved it. Democrats refused to honor him even in the most modest of ways, and few condemned the political violence that took his life. 365 days later, they’re still cheering the fact that Tyler Robinson silenced one of the brightest young conservative voices that ever existed.
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These messages are absolutely vile. I am sick to my stomach.
And this is just some of them…
There appears to be something very rotten in the… pic.twitter.com/WMe5oFnLjz
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 10, 2026
Even corporations are taking swipes at Kirk’s memory.
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Nearly did himself a neck injury. pic.twitter.com/7HKifplq5g
— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) September 10, 2026
There is a deep, evil rot on the Left. And while it should concern us, it must not — it cannot — intimidate or silence us.
Charlie Kirk was a master at conversation. He was always willing to debate anyone and everyone. He was always respectful, and he always came prepared. Part of that was because he was a brilliant man with a brilliant mind. But a lot of it has to do with the fact that Kirk was on the right side of things, in every sense of the word.
So this transcends the free exchange of ideas and gets to a more important matter: right versus wrong. While the Left likes to talk about and engage in moral relativism (the idea that there is no fixed morality), the reality is that there are things like universal truths, that there are economic policies that work better, that there is a set of morals and standards by which we should live our lives. The Left has fought against these basic standards for years; even the Smithsonian classified behavior that was once considered normal and civilized as “white supremacy,” including the concepts of hard work, politeness, and punctuality.
Those things are not race-based. They’re the behaviors of people who live and work in a functioning society. That’s anathema to the Left, of course. A functioning society leaves them no room for power and control. They thrive on dysfunction, on chaos, and on destruction. And because they do nothing but tear down the good, they are ultimately incapable of defending what they do believe in.
So, in an effort to protect the fragile reality they’ve built up, they turn to violence. It’s why someone openly wished J.K. Rowling’s abusive ex-husband had “finished the job” and beaten her to death. It’s why activists target Republicans who dine out to eat and stalk Supreme Court Justices at their homes. It’s why they try to pass unconstitutional laws curtailing our free speech and the free press and use the force of the state to enforce them.
And it’s why they celebrated, and continue to celebrate, Charlie Kirk’s murder.
Perhaps that’s the lesson we should take away from this sad day. Kirk believed ideas should be spoken aloud, challenged, debated, and defended. Tyler Robinson chose violence instead.
That violence took a husband from Erika, a father from two young children, a son from two loving parents, and a friend from countless others. And while it may have ended Charlie’s life, it did not end the conversations and movement he started nor did it silence the millions of us who believe, as he did, that our ideas are worth defending.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) September 10, 2026
So today, I mourn for Charlie. I pray for Erika, their children, and everyone who loved him. You should, too.
And then we need to do the one thing that Robinson could never destroy: we keep talking. We keep debating. We keep asking uncomfortable questions. We keep defending what is good and true, and we keep fighting, even when doing so comes with a cost.
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