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 24^th 2025 Day 247 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

Spineless Democrats and clueless self-styled liberals are complicit in creating the  hagiography for Charlie Kirk, as they rush to kneel in obeisance to the vengeful and rabid MAGA social media machine and 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 Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t, Either. Jamelle Bouie│ The New York Times│13 September 2025

            And then there is Kirk’s vision for America, which wasn’t one of peace and pluralism but white nationalism and the denigration of Americans deemed unworthy of and unfit for equal citizenship. On his podcast, Kirk called on 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 in 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.  Kirk 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.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/opinion/charlie-kirk-assassination.html 

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning. The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. │Elizabeth Spiers│The Nation│12 September 2025

He preached hate, bigotry, and division. He died with a net worth of $12 million, which he made by espousing horrific and bigoted views in the name of advancing Christian nationalism. The foundation of his empire was the group he cofounded and led, Turning Point USA, which is 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 because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct.

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, saying, ‘you do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously,” 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. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/# 

The Intercept Briefing Podcast: The Real Charlie Kirk│Akela Lacy, Natasha Lennard, and Ali Breland│12 September 2025

            This is a man who engaged in a performance of debate. So he’s perhaps best known as one of the “debate me” right. I’ve always framed this — and continue to do so — as a shtick. I see it as window dressing. This is a performance by which he can move around colleges and condescend to young men and women at least a decade younger than him. 

But his actual commitment is to the broader Trumpian project, which is making the body politic and those permitted to speak within it as small as possible. So the elimination of trans people from public life as far as is possible — through policy and on university campuses and educational spaces in particular — extremely pro-Zionist, the weaponization of antisemitism on college campuses to silence pro-Palestinian speech, pro-mass incarceration, extraordinarily racist in comments he’s made around what constitutes crime and criminality, and a huge supporter of Trump’s deportation machine. 

What we do not need is the whitewashing of Charlie Kirk’s politics to make it sound like he was open-minded, invested in a broad and robust public in which 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 where they should be attending very, very quickly to their constituents and their most vulnerable constituents — to protect them from the very kind of world that some of Charlie Kirk’s worst supporters and worst defenders in his life would have wanted to see come into being. And again, that is a world that is crueler, whiter, and less inclusive of huge swaths of millions of Americans and the people that live here. And I think that’s who we should be protecting and thinking about right now.  https://theintercept.com/2025/09/12/briefing-podcast-charlie-kirk/ 

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

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is increasingly leaning into right-wing Christian fundamentalism TPUSA has used its college campus activism model with the faith community, partnering with far-right pastors and groups and demanding Christian pastors preach right-wing politics. │Payton Armstrong│Media Matters│27 April 2023

TPUSA Faith was launched in 2021, with a Turning Point spokesperson saying 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,” and 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 events, Kirk “melds the political with the spiritual” and frames political issues “as not just earthly policy differences, but part of the spiritual war between good and evil,” as described by The Arizona Republic. Kirk 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. www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa-increasingly-leaning-right-wing-christian 

The Intercept Briefing Podcast: The Real Charlie Kirk│Akela Lacy, Natasha Lennard, and Ali Breland│12 September 2025

He had a long record of comments denigrating Black people, women, gay and trans people, and immigrants. Kirk’s group, Turning Point USA, pushed a Christian nationalist vision of America that, as we’ve discussed on this show, 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 out in the more moderate wing in 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. https://theintercept.com/2025/09/12/briefing-podcast-charlie-kirk/ 

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