Charlie Kirk was a hate propagandist. His role in the Republican party was to support Faux, Newsmax, Trump, and other haters in promoting hate for everyone who wasn't a Republican.
Years ago when Karl Rove was chair of the RNC, the Republican party decided to adopt the propaganda techniques of Goebbels to win elections since they couldn't win by telling voters their agenda. As the party of, by, and for the rich, they had to have some other message to con people into voting to harm themselves. They decided on divide and conquer: Tell their base a fairy tale about how the Republican party was going to save them from the evil everyone else. Ever since then at each election, the Republican party has picked a target to demonize: Welfare queens, gay people threatening family values, doctors committing partial birth abortions, immigrants, and always Democrats who are supposedly a threat to real true American values. And of course, a perennial favorite: Black people.
My sister's church decided to feature Black American religious music for Easter, For this crime Kirk featured them on his site as "woke" and gave the contact info to his supporters. Her church was subjected to weeks of obscenities and death threats. They had to hire security to go to church.
Kirk said that human life was expendable to protect the 2nd Amendment. I guess he found out that he was one of the expendable ones. This was a surprise, I'm sure; Republicans never expect their ideas to be applied to them.
Now the Republicans are enjoying a wallow in martyrdom, No one fakes victimization like a fascist can. The party of Trump, that launched a violent attack on Congress, is now yowling about the terrible political violence in this nation.
Political violence is terrible. That's why I'm not a Republican. Charlie Kirk was a bad person while alive and being dead doesn't make him any better.
His death will be used by Republicans as a means of silencing anyone who criticizes them. They will continue to use the language of exclusion, of marginalizing and demonizing, to promote hate while pretending to be the victims.
Meanwhile the ethnic cleansing campaign against immigrants--which is no different than the anti-Irish hate campaigns of the 1800s or the expulsion of the Chinese or the Trail of Tears or the internment of Japanese Americans--will continue. Haters gotta hate and hate is the only message Republicans have.
The rest of us are the targets and we get to fight back. Part of that fighting back is to call them what they are: a fascist movement that uses Goebbels propaganda techniques against the rest of America to get power.
Charlie Kirk was a professional hate propagandist. I am opposed to violence which is why I was disgusted with him when he was alive and disgusted by him now.