I waited a few days for the dust to settle before sharing much in the way of thoughts on this event. Lots of very heat-of-the-moment rhetoric (for understandable reasons), and I wanted some more time to think it over.
First, obviously it's a huge tragedy and I feel awful for his family which has been horribly hurt by the murder.
Second, I'm shocked by what a big deal this was in the mainstream. I had no idea Charlie Kirk was so popular; I knew he was better known than somebody like Nick Fuentes, but now it seems like everybody everywhere has been familiar with him for a while. I think I must have severely underestimated TPUSA's influence, but I've been a bit checked out of the political situation for a long time now.
Third, I'm at least a bit suspicious of the idea that Tyler Robinson was a lone crazy leftist, and like others here have suggested, it seems quite plausible that he had help. While I think it's possible that the Zionist regime had something to do with it, I'd need more compelling evidence than we have right now.
Fourth - and this is where things get a bit spicy - this event and the murder of the Ukrainian girl on the train and all the associated fallout has been the biggest PR boost for the right that I've seen in my entire life, in a single week a Left that has been already been on the backfoot for years has completely lost the moral high ground.
The Woke left has been in sharp decline for a few years now, as evidenced by Trump's huge victory last November, but this was the death blow. With these two events, the right has completely snatched the moral high ground from opponents who took it for granted and assumed they'd hold it forever. If the Left can't play the Goodperson card, then they've lost arguably their most vital rhetorical tool. This doesn't mean the Left is over, but it does mean that their wickedness has been clearly exposed to those in the middle. I think much of the nastiness of leftists reveling over Kirk's death is some kind of subconscious death throe, the realization that on some level their side just sustained a death blow.
Fifth, as much good as Charlie did alive, his impact as a martyr for conservatism is likely to be greater. In death he exposed the ugly truth about Leftism more viscerally than he ever could in his life. He died at the point where he would have maximum impact: young, attractive, with a lovely young family horrifically rent apart by a deranged leftist. No mistresses, no criminal record or shady dealings or any of the other things that tend to bring down guys in his position (especially over time.) He walked the talk. His death sends a message to people ranging from centrists to traditional conservative republicans: a message that would once be unceremoniously delivered by the Boomercon as a TL;DR wall of text has now been immortalized in a visceral and brutal shock, a rhetorical BFG 9000 delivered into the hands of the Right and primed to lay waste to the wailing demons.
What exactly this might entail is a bit hard to say. There are all sorts of ways things should go from here, and my generally wary and skeptical nature makes me hesitant to declare victory, but there's no doubt that the right has some sort of golden opportunity here, one that I didn't really expect to see in my lifetime. But I think our leaders, pundits, activists, YouTube and Twitter personalities, whatever it may be, need our prayers more than ever: this is a momentous time.
