Charlie Kirk - One Year Later

The martyr didn't martyr like they hoped:

But when I survey the legacy of that fateful day in Utah from the vantage point of 2026, something else becomes clear. What conservatives thought they might harvest from the death of Kirk—a soft-power cultural mandate, broad bipartisan empathy, perhaps an assertion that it was liberals who were the real psychopaths in the room—never came to pass. Instead, ironically, I’ve concluded that Kirk’s killing represented the tipping point of Peak MAGAdom, a breaking of a certain fever. It had been less than a year since Trump had retaken the presidency—and unlike in 2017, in 2025 the masses were grappling with whether Trump’s movement was culturally ascendant. Kirk’s murder proved that it was not.