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To: Les H who wrote (47882)	9/22/2025 7:27:12 AM
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The Erika Kirk example Speeches at the slain activist’s funeral highlight two paths for the conservative movement. September 21, 2025 at 9:22 p.m. EDT The most senior leaders of the U.S. government assembled Sunday in Arizona for what was essentially a Christian revival. That such an event took place in 2025 reflects the historic achievement of Charlie Kirk during his short life. Speakers honored his sense of grace and willingness to engage political adversaries on the battlefield of ideas. Too bad President Donald Trump didn’t live up to the moment. The president honored Kirk but also rambled extensively about autism, the 2020 election and Joe Biden’s mental acuity, among his other favorite topics. The most telling moment came when Trump explained how his approach to politics differed from Kirk’s. “He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them,” Trump explained. “That’s where I disagreed with Charlie.” These kinds of comments would be the end of any other politician’s career. Not Trump’s. The president allowed that neither left nor right has a “monopoly on disturbed or misguided people,” but he suggested that only the left believes it has a “monopoly on truth.” Trump blamed that dogmatic mentality for the murder of Kirk, but hardly modeled political tolerance in his own remarks. As Trump put it during another digression in his speech: Those who challenge his sweeping tariffs “hate our country.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave an address that evinced genuine concern for the country’s political stratification. He noted that Americans are “moving into neighborhoods with other people that agree with them politically.” Vice President JD Vance, in an improvement from his vengeful call last week to crack down on left-wing organizations, recognized that “for every hateful voice celebrating [Kirk’s] murder there are a thousand people mourning it.” The most powerful eulogy came from Kirk’s bereaved wife, Erika. She spoke about her husband’s preoccupation with young men “wasting their lives on distractions, and the men consumed with resentment, anger and hate.” Her husband, she said, wanted to give those men’s lives direction and meaning, including through Christianity. “He wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life,” Kirk said. “That man. That young man. I forgive him. I forgive him because it was what Christ did.” The heartfelt grieving for Kirk highlighted the tension between Trump’s brand of hardball politics and the spirit of Christian charity that Kirk imperfectly espoused. The young activist helped change the trajectory of American political history. Trump’s speech wasn’t worthy of Kirk’s efforts. But at least the event showed the possibility of a different direction under the president’s most likely successors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/09/21/charlie-kirk-memorial-erika-kirk-trump/