• AMERICA • AFTER • CHARLIE •


Charlie Kirk She was clearly unsettled by a


young conservative sharing his views with students. But whether the wom- an was predisposed to accept or reject his views didn’t matter to Kirk. He was there to answer questions. So, he did. “What is so important to our coun-


try is to find our disagreements respect- fully,” explained the young Christian leader, who’d already been the target of


was sitting at a table under


a tent on a college campus one day, long before his appearances would draw thousands. Students would step up to ask him a question, and his first impulse was to find out more about them; not only what they wanted to know, but who they were and how they saw the world. Suddenly, an older woman stepped forward. “Why?” she asked Kirk. “Why are you doing this?”


Antifa assaults and death threats. “Be- cause when people stop talking, that’s when violence happens.” Little could anyone guess how pro- phetic those words would be. Years later, the day after her hus-


band was murdered in cold blood on the campus of Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, Erika Kirk returned home to her 3-year-old daughter, who had no idea what had just happened. Gigi ran into her arms to get a big


hug. Then she asked the question that Erika always knew was coming. “Where’s Daddy?” “Baby,” Erika told her, “don’t you


worry! Daddy loves you sooo much! He’s on a work trip with Jesus, so he can afford your blueberry budget.” President Donald Trump would


proclaim Kirk’s death allegedly at the hands of 22-year-old Tyler Robinson “a dark day for America.” And indeed, it was. But perhaps the darkest aspect


was the cold-hearted response in the political arena. In the 20th century, pundits liked to say: “Politics ain’t beanbag.” But in


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