THE LONDON TELEGRAPH: Charlie Kirk: The Maga ally committed to speaking across the divide.
Charlie Kirk leaned into his reputation as a deeply polarising figure, taking his conservative message to the most hostile places he could imagine: America’s college campuses.
This helped him build his Turning Point USA movement into a fundraising giant and catapulted him into the highest echelons of Trump world.
On Wednesday he took his rapier wit and his “Prove Me Wrong” roadshow to Utah Valley University. It proved to be his final appearance.
He was cut down by a gunman’s bullet as he answered questions about mass shootings in America.
President Donald Trump announced his death, illustrating the power of the 31-year-old’s reach.
“No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie,” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Kirk exemplified the confrontational, populist conservatism that brought Mr Trump to power.
Other than being a skilled debater, there was nothing “confrontational” about Kirk’s style. I very much hope I’m wrong, but that may not be true of those who replace him.
Charlie Kirk just went around debating college kids who had likely never heard a viewpoint outside the narrow ones they had been taught. He used words, ideas, that’s it. And someone found this so threatening that they decided to kill him for it.
— Peter Hague (@peterrhague) September 10, 2025
While we’re on the subject of London, Two-Tier Keir is utterly shameless:
