In the internet discourse regarding Charlie Kirk’s assassination this week, the divide between the two realities left and right in this country inhabit was never more clear. One popular post goes into length about how all the left saw of Kirk were his inflammatory bigoted comments and how all the right saw was a gentle loving conservative family man. The author shocks her conservative friend when she reveals Kirk’s actual words.
This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
— Rob (@robwillb.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Many on the left didn’t even know who Charlie Kirk was. When the right began mourning him so strongly, it caught many by surprise, leading one poster, transgender activist Charlotte Clymer, to offer this analogy to help the left understand the impact of Kirk’s death.
I keep seeing folks say they weren't even aware of Charlie Kirk until this week. And that's fine. But the right's reaction isn't fake. He really was massively influential on the right. I've been aware of him for a decade. He was to the right what one of the Pod Save guys are to the left. (1/2)
— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) September 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
There were many replies slamming Charlotte’s analogy. Rachel Maddow would have been a closer pick than the Pod Save America bros, but still inaccurate, because Kirk wasn’t just a “political influencer.” We need to come to terms with the fact that they are engaged in a holy war. This is more akin to a pope’s death to them.
The genius of Trump was he treated mediocre white men as an aggrieved racial minority, To that end, Trump is their MLK and the people like Kirk are their Fred Hampton.
That’s how impactful Kirk’s killing is to them. Never mind one of their own did the killing, that’s immaterial to them.
They are on a mission from God to restore America to the white and delightsome manifest destiny that they believe Jesus inspired the Founding Fathers to create. Their enemy is Satan, who mostly manifests as Black Mexican feminist Muslim LGBT Ph.D. elites who laugh at them and their holy book every weeknight on the three broadcast TV networks (at least, until next June).
And, occasionally, Satan manifests his evil in the hearts of terminally-online Republican white boys by leading them astray to shack up with an alleged trans roommate and then shoot at their MLK or kill their Fred Hampton.
But he’s still the same Satan who’s aiding the Left in trying to take down their mission from God.
When you heard Erika Kirk referencing “they” in her tearful call for “spiritual battle,” maybe you wondered, “isn’t this Tyler Robinson a ‘he?'” It’s no mistake. “They” is us, all the forces directed by Satan that conspire against God’s Plan, including Robinson.
They’re on a mission from God.
Charlie Kirk wasn’t “an influencer” in their world. He was Daniel, entering the lion’s den of university, engaging in spiritual battle on Satan’s turf. He was a shepherd saving those precious lambs from coming back for Thanksgiving with piercings, same-sex partners, and voting Democrat.
That’s why the reaction you’re seeing from the right and media (pardon the redundancy) is one for a fallen religious leader.
And why the reaction to Melissa Hortman’s assassination was a shrug from MAGA. Collateral damage in spiritual warfare. She shoulda been a Republican, in their view.
But we can’t get on the war footing necessary to battle these babbling Biblical literalists because our leaders are both somewhat beholden to the same Bible, so they can’t call out the holy war for what it is, and they still think the battles being waged are merely political. So, we’ll get “While I may have disagreed with him politically…”
Instead of “He was a poisonous propagandist whose words of bigotry and hatred for anyone he prejudged by his narrow religious beliefs made America a more divided nation and contributed to the culture of judgment, retribution, vengeance, and violence that has harmed and killed many and ultimately cost his own life.”
So, for Charlie Kirk to be shot at a university in lily-white Mormon, deep-red Republican Utah, the closest thing America has to a theocratic state, that’s more like Rachel Maddow being shot while she’s Grand Marshal of the San Francisco Pride Parade, in terms of emotional impact and importance to their communities.
They’re on a mission from God. There is no negotiation with holy warriors. They can only be defeated if we wish to keep our Republic. There’s a reason why the very first words in the Bill of Rights are, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” The power and authority of We the People can never be subservient to anyone’s idea of God, or there is no America.