Dispatch #173 White Lesbian Age 73 Considers the Hideous Hagiographic Reboot of Charlie Kirk Who Demonized BIPOC, Women, Queer People & Celebrated White Patriarchy and Christian Nationalism

# September 24th, 2025: Day 247 of the White Supremacist Misogynist Christian Nationalist Regime; 1188 Days Since SCOTUS Ruled American Women Don’t Have Human Rights; 718 Days Since Israel Began Genocidal Campaign on Palestinians in Gaza

## The Complicity of Spineless Democrats and Clueless Liberals

Spineless Democrats and clueless self-styled liberals are complicit in crafting a hagiography for Charlie Kirk. They rush to kneel in obeisance to the vengeful and rabid MAGA social media machine. They lament the young man “who practiced politics the right way” (thank you, Ezra Klein) and who exemplified “spirited discourse” and “good-faith debate” (thank you, Gavin Newsom).

Countless videos, podcasts, and speeches document the specific repulsive content of Charlie Kirk’s message to young people on college campuses. Kirk urgently preached denigrating rhetoric that promoted white supremacist racism, patriarchal misogyny, homophobia, anti-immigrant mass deportations, and Islamophobia. As Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley preached about Charlie Kirk, “how you die does not redeem how you lived.”

## Charlie Kirk's Vision for America

Charlie Kirk didn’t shy away from who he was. We shouldn’t, either. Jamelle Bouie from The New York Times noted on September 13, 2025, that Kirk’s vision for America wasn’t one of peace and pluralism but rather white nationalism. He sought to denigrate Americans deemed unworthy of and unfit for equal citizenship. On his podcast, Kirk called for authorities to create a “citizen force” on the border to protect “white demographics” from “the invasion of the country.” He embraced the rhetoric of white pride and warned of “a great replacement” of rural white Americans.

“The great replacement strategy, which is well underway every single day at our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different,” he said last year. “You believe in God, country, family, faith, and freedom, and they won’t stop until you and your children and your children’s children are eliminated.”

Kirk also targeted Black Americans for contempt. “Prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people — that’s a fact,” he said in 2023. He told his listeners that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Supreme Court “is what your country looks like on critical race theory,” that former Vice President Kamala Harris was “the jive speaking spokesperson of equity,” and that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “was awful.”

“I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I’ve thought about it,” Kirk said at a 2023 event. “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.” Read more here.

## The Legacy of Hate

Charlie Kirk’s legacy deserves no mourning. The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. Elizabeth Spiers from The Nation wrote on September 12, 2025, that he preached hate, bigotry, and division. He died with a net worth of $12 million, amassed by espousing horrific and bigoted views in the name of advancing Christian nationalism. The foundation of his empire was the group he co-founded and led, Turning Point USA, a key youth-recruitment arm of the MAGA movement.

He was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses. Many of the facile defenses of Kirk and his legacy are predicated on the idea that it’s acceptable to spread hateful ideas advocating for the persecution of perceived enemies, as long as you dress them up in a posture of debate. This is just class privilege. The man who smeared Black women like Ketanji Brown Jackson and Michelle Obama, whom he claimed had benefited from affirmative action, said, “you do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously.” He said it while wearing a nice shirt and a tie on a podcast instead of tattered overalls in the parking lot of a rural Walmart. That does not make it any less racist. Read more here.

## The Performance of Debate

The Intercept Briefing Podcast highlighted the real Charlie Kirk. He engaged in a performance of debate, best known as one of the “debate me” right. This was a shtick, a window dressing. It allowed him to move around colleges and condescend to young men and women at least a decade younger than him.

But his actual commitment was to the broader Trumpian project. This project aims to make the body politic and those permitted to speak within it as small as possible. It seeks the elimination of trans people from public life, particularly on university campuses and educational spaces. It is extremely pro-Zionist, weaponizing antisemitism on college campuses to silence pro-Palestinian speech. It supports mass incarceration and is extraordinarily racist in comments about crime and criminality. Kirk was a huge supporter of Trump’s deportation machine.

What we do not need is the whitewashing of Charlie Kirk’s politics. We must not allow it to sound like he was open-minded or invested in a robust public where people have equal access to speech, learning, and education. That is not the man who was killed yesterday. Nor is it the job of Democrat leaders to scramble into those hagiographic performances at a moment when they should be attending very quickly to their constituents and their most vulnerable constituents. They must protect them from the very kind of world that some of Charlie Kirk’s worst supporters and defenders would have wanted to see come into being. Again, that is a world that is crueler, whiter, and less inclusive of millions of Americans. That’s who we should be protecting and thinking about right now. Listen to the podcast here.

## The Rise of Christian Nationalism

During the last few years, Charlie Kirk cloaked his campaign of bigotry, hatred, and fear-mongering in the tenets of white Christian nationalism. Christian nationalism preaches that the U.S. is a fundamentally Christian nation and should be governed by right-wing Christian beliefs grounded in the Bible. Many leaders in the Republican Party, including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, disparage the separation of church and state and insist that the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation.

Kirk’s Turning Point USA increasingly leans into right-wing Christian fundamentalism. TPUSA has used its college campus activism model with the faith community, partnering with far-right pastors and groups. They demand that Christian pastors preach right-wing politics. Payton Armstrong from Media Matters reported on April 27, 2023, that TPUSA Faith was launched in 2021. A Turning Point spokesperson stated that “it was a no-brainer to recreate” the TPUSA model of activism for the faith community.

Kirk has depicted the country as engaged in a “spiritual battle.” This latest initiative seeks to win that supposed battle by restoring “America’s biblical values.” After Kirk partnered with extreme pastors and religious right leaders, some observers noted that TPUSA has increasingly grounded its mission in “the theology of Christian nationalism” and religious fundamentalism.

In 2021, Kirk launched TPUSA Faith’s “Saving America Tour” at megachurches around the country. At these events, Kirk melds the political with the spiritual. He frames political issues as not just earthly policy differences but as part of the spiritual war between good and evil. He has closely associated with high-profile members of the Christian nationalist “dominionist” movement, which asserts that Christians have been called to exert God’s will on society. Read more here.

## The Impact of Turning Point USA

The Intercept Briefing Podcast reiterated that Kirk had a long record of comments denigrating Black people, women, gay and trans people, and immigrants. His group, Turning Point USA, pushed a Christian nationalist vision of America that fuels a major part of the MAGA base. The Southern Poverty Law Center wrote of the group: “[TPUSA] exploits complicated feelings of insecurity and anxiety to manufacture rage and mobilize support to revive and maintain a white-dominated, male supremacist, Christian social order.”

While Kirk started in the more moderate wing of the conservative party, his politics grew more extreme as his reach exploded, particularly among young people on college campuses. Some on the far-right responded to Kirk’s killing by declaring that war had arrived. Listen to the podcast here.

## The Normalization of Fascism

The insidious insertion of white Christian nationalism into the intentionally polarizing MAGA social media ecosphere is effectively normalizing fascism in the U.S. The war between good and evil has been launched.

In this moment, we must remain vigilant. We must resist the narratives that seek to undermine our humanity. We must challenge the ideologies that promote division and hatred. We cannot afford to be complacent. The fight for justice, equality, and human rights is ongoing. We must rise in resistance and stand firm against the forces that threaten our very existence.