The event in honor of the conservative activist, killed on 9/10, was held in a stadium in Arizona on Sunday.
The event in honor of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, killed on 9/10, was held in a stadium in Arizona on Sunday 21/09. The ceremony combined the memorial, the Christian awakening of the great churches and the conservative political event.
He also offered a vision of the Republican party in front of a crossroads, meditating between forgiveness and retaliation, between reconciliation and conflict.
The main leaders of the Trumpist Coalition make America Great Again (Maga, “Do America Grande”, in free translation) gathered to celebrate Kirk’s life at an event of several hours, with music and speeches.
The event indicated the direction that the sorceress movement can follow, more than ten years after its ascent and the transformation of politics in the United States.
Erika Kirk, possible star of the future
Despite the presence of important politicians on Sunday evening (21/09), the central moment occurred when Erika Kirk, Charlie’s widow, rose to the stage. The former candidate for beauty competitions, Podcaster and the 36 -year -old entrepreneur took the opportunity to preach the unit, including forgiveness to the murderer of his husband.
“The response to hatred is not hate,” he said, his voice has embraced. “The answer, we know for the Gospel, is love and always love: love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.”
It was a surprising speech by a woman who quickly found her space in the most relentless spotlight. Last week, he was appointed leader of the conservative youth organization founded by his husband, US turn -based, a group that gained new energy and determination after Kirk’s murder.
On Sunday evening he showed that Erika Kirk has the strength and character to become the effective public face of US turn -based.
It can become a formidable candidate for public offices in his homeland, in Arizona, an important political battlefield. His words are in contrast with the explosive tone and comparison that marks much of the contemporary American politics.
The call to Trump weapons
If Erika Kirk had offered a vision of a perhaps more type with the conservative movement, the president of the United States Donald Trump, who spoke to them immediately, quickly remembered that the current Republican party could have very different priorities.
“I hate my opponents and I don’t want the best for them,” Trump said with a laugh. “Now Erika can talk to me and the entire group and could be able to convince me that it is not fair, but I can’t stand my opponent.”
Trump’s statements took place one day after a post on the social truth platform in which he asked the Justice Department to elaborate his political enemies, including the Senator of California Adam Schiff (Democratic Party), the former manager of the FBI James Comey and the Prosecutor General of New York, Letitia James.
Trump also announced that he had fired a federal prosecutor who recently said that there were sufficient evidence to accuse James of a crime, replacing him with one of his former defense lawyers.
Trump’s speeches to the memorial detached themselves from the tone of the occasion, but was not the only one to use the event to promise actions against “enemies”.
“We are the storm,” said Stephen Miller, senior consultant of the White House. “Our enemies cannot understand our strength, our determination, our firmness, our passion.”
Miller added that the conservatives would fought for western culture and traditions and that their opponents had nothing but evil and envy.
“You have no idea of ​​the dragon who woke up,” he said.
Evidence of a religious awakening
Although the event presented notes of disagreement, the general theme resembled a religious Renaissance – which recalls the crusades of Billy Graham Tents in the 1930s and 1940s or the “great awakening” of the 19th century.
The memorial celebrated Charlie Kirk’s Christianity and promised a new enthusiasm among young Americans for traditional values ​​with Evangelical fervor.
Tens of thousands of supporters crowded the stadium, millions followed online. These numbers should excite conservative leaders who want to see Christianity to play the most central role in the public and political life of the United States – defended by Kirk on several occasions.
“The political body of America was so Christian and thus Protestant that our form and our structure of the government were built for people who believed in Christ our Lord,” Kirk said in 2024. “There can be no freedom if there is no Christian population”.
Although Christianity has decreased in the United States in recent years, it is still the majority faith. The research, however, indicates that young Americans are less religious than the elderly, which indicates possible future changes.
Kirk’s death can cause religious awakening among young Americans. If you don’t do it, Sunday Night’s evangelical rhetoric can exclude as united as united, deepening the cultural and political divisions in the country.
EVERYWARE NEGINAL AMBITION
Although Trump’s second mandate is only nine months, Sunday evening could have been a first comparison in the controversy for the republican appointment for the presidency in 2028.
Three possible candidates-Jd Vance (Vice President), Marco Rubio (Secretary of State) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Secretary of Health)-highlighted the vocal spaces.
Everyone spoke of the importance of their relationship with Kirk and their faith, offering more targeted and traditional compliments, in clear contrast with Trump’s speech. However, there was a political prejudice focused on the future in its lines.
“Of Charlie, we will reconstruct the United States of America for the size,” said Vance. “Of Charlie, we will never retain, we will never curl up and we will never go, even when we are facing a gun.”
Kennedy described Kirk as someone who “changed the trajectory of history” and highlighted the risks of “rooted interests”. Rubio praised Kirk for inspired the Americans to “live a productive life, marry, constitute a family and love the country”.
Trump, of course, was a prominent speaker at the event, but the President of the United States did not dominate the event as usually on political occasions.
Sunday, the conservatives have started to have an idea of ​​those who can become a key actor on the national scene when Trump leaves the scene.
An unexpected reconciliation with Musk
Speaking of protagonists, Sunday evening marked the return of one of the most important figures of Trump’s second mandate.
The billionaire of Elon Musk Technology, who was confidant near Trump before a public dispute in June, visited the president’s box at the Phoenix event and maintained what seemed to be a friendly conversation.
“I thought it was beautiful,” Trump said to journalists. “It came; we talked.”
Musk, who led the Department of Efficiency of the Government (Doge) of Trump previously, supervised mass layoffs in the federal government and tried budget cuts.
He broke with Trump compared to a spending account of $ 3.4 trillion dollars (about $ 18.5 trillion dollars) from the congress and subsequently promised to create his own political party.
The reconciliation of Trump and Musk was not the most relevant development of the memorial, but it may have been one of the most unexpected – and nobody knows where he can lead.
Source: Terra
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