Source: Washington Post
by Henry Olsen
“Charlie Kirk’s funeral Sunday will be a historic moment for conservatives. Kirk’s widow, Erika, President Donald Trump and his allies will understandably want to use the event to call out a tide of left-wing intolerance and violence. But they need to strike the right tone — or they risk squandering Kirk’s legacy.” [editor’s note: Value, and therefore “squandering,” is subjective. It’s becoming pretty obvious that the value MAGA sees in Kirk’s “legacy” is Kirk as a potential Horst Wessel. “Squandering” it, from their POV, would be failing to maximize its utility for achieving authoritarian ends – TLK] (09/18/25)