The cowardly attack on Charlie Kirk shaked the United States. Even Democrats honor the murdered Trump activists. But he was only concerned with freedom of expression.
The terrible death of the right political activist Charlie Kirk has shocked the United States. One of the first to respond to the news of the attack to Kirk was the Democrat Gavin Newsom. California’s governor was dismayed and asked to preserve Kirk’s memory by continuing his work and “getting in touch with each other, through ideological limits, through lively discussions”.
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Ezra Klein, a renowned author of the “New York Times”, also came to the conclusion in his obituary that Kirk understood it with his provocative appearances, a paralyzed, self -censoring culture of debate. Liberalism can cut a disc from Kirk’s fearlessness and his love of freedom of expression, says Klein.
These reactions seem bizarre. They show how far the discourse in the United States has already shifted to the right. Even in left -liberal circles, the hope of constructively getting into conversation seems so low that even clever demagogues like Kirk are celebrated as a savior of debate culture. It is overlooked that the Maga missionar was primarily concerned with spreading his radical agenda. He discussed to expose others to overturn left, liberals and LGBTQ+activists with his Christian-foundal to racist nationalist slogans. With him, debate was only simulated.
“Prove Me Wrong” was one of his most successful formats. “Try to prove the opposite”. The title already shows that this was the discussion that was not about exchanging positions or having to advance the discourse. Kirk knew perfectly to hire the public debate room and to address broad voters with its multi-million dollar organization “Turning Point USA” (TPUSA). However, he performed well and charmingly – as a dazzling poster boy of the extreme right in the USA. Hardly anyone made Trump’s authoritarian agenda as accessible to young people as him.
The evangelical Christian propagated a rigorous, Old Testament interpretation of the Bible, he wished a society that was supposed to breathe the spirit of the 1950s in which women were behind the stove, men solved their problems with violence and was considered a disease and was punishable.
