Has Charlie Kirk’s Death Become a Turning Point?

Numerous people in America are claiming that something is changing in the United States and elsewhere in the world. Victor Davis Hanson wrote that the change is not like the movement brought about by the George Floyd death but an “enough is enough” movement. 

We’re witnessing large-scale demonstrations in Ireland, Great Britain. The government of France has fallen, and French President Emmanuel Macron will have to appoint a new prime minister. There is unrest in the Netherlands.

We used to think, during the Cold War, that Eastern Europe was supposedly backward, politically, under the Soviet sway, economically stagnant. But since the Cold War, and especially lately, the Eastern Europeans seem the most sensible of all Westerners. They believe in tradition. They believe in borders. They believe in legal-only immigration. They believe in fossil fuel development. And they have strong militaries because they’ve experienced Soviet aggression and German aggression in the past. And yet, they also are having a reinforcing moment.

What is this moment? We’re seeing it in the United States with thousands of people commemorating the death of Charlie Kirk….

This is not violent. It’s just a collective shrug. And what is the shrug, basically? It’s saying we’re tolerant of people with alternate lifestyles. But whether we like it or not, the nuclear two-parent family, for 2,500 years, has ensured the survival of Western civilization. It gives us two to three to four children, and we can reproduce the species.

We’re tolerant of Islam and Buddhism, Hinduism. We have a multiracial, multicultural population. But whether we like it or not, the foundations of the United States are Judeo-Christian, as they are of Western civilization in general. We have no apologies for that….

We also are tired of what I call boutique anti-Americanism…. And we’re tired of it. It doesn’t mean we’re gonna outlaw free speech or try to use the same tactics as the critics of America do. But what we’re saying is, we’re a unique place. We’re better than the alternative. We don’t have to be perfect to be good. So, you can say all you want, but we’re gonna not just ignore you, we’re gonna do our best to make sure your voices have [no] influence.

And that’s why people are taking to the street in Europe. They’re saying an open border and illegal immigration brings in millions of people from the Middle East. They have no proven desire that they wish to readily assimilate, integrate into a culture and a civilization that they feel is antithetical to that of their home….

But we see the same thing in the United States….

So, we’re saying open borders do not work. We’re saying that if you dismantle natural gas, energy, if you dismantle oil, if you dismantle nuclear power, and you choose to subsidize inefficient and unreliable solar and wind, then you’re going to be a pre-civilizational society. Germany was the juggernaut of Europe, and now it’s a pathetic weakling, economically. Why? Because its energy costs are four times what they used to be. And it’s not a competitive country….

The political assassination of Charlie Kirk is the first such action since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. I believe that the shot that killed Kirk awoke millions of people who had previously refused to consider the evil taking place in America. The New York Post called the movement of moderate Democrats and Independents into the Republican Party a “Charlie Kirk effect.” The new Republicans “told The Post they were horrified by [Kirk’s] assassination.” They considered Kirk to be “kind and reasonable,” and they were “disgusted by the ghoulish celebration of his killing by many lefties.”