Charlie Kirk was one gigantic gift to the Left. A friendly hand extended over the abyss. I wasn’t a supporter because my goodwill had been tried well beyond my capacity to think anything could be solved by friendly dialogue, like Charlie fervently believed.
The Left should be standing at the head of the line to mourn Charlie. But it became so rigid – while exhorting everybody to be endlessly fluid and hopey-changey, of course – that it sees the slightest departure from its dogma as the absolute deep-end horror. That’s why people on the Left are sincerely confused when I explain that Kirk was a moderate, that he had a gigantic opposition on the Right because he was too moderate.
Charlie Kirk believed what the completely apolitical man smoking by the corner store before his morning shift believes. Or this guy’s very apolitical wife. Or his siblings. Or colleagues. Kirk’s beliefs are mainstream. BLM, pronouns, transing children, and no human is illegal are not. They are boutique ideas that seem much more mainstream than they are because people have been bullied into keeping silent about their rejection of it.
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