Charlie Kirk’s murder is a tragedy. No one should be gunned down for their views — no matter how extreme they may be.

And Kirk’s views were often ugly and absurd. He argued that women should be subservient to men, promoted the racist “replacement theory,” dismissed climate change as “gibberish,” and ironically claimed gun control posed too great a cost to personal freedom. He belittled Martin Luther King Jr., attacked the Civil Rights Act, joked about biblical stoning of gay people, blamed “Jewish donors” for antisemitism, and called transgender people “an abomination to God.”

And yet he built a huge following. He turned these ideas into a youth-driven political movement on the right. The proper way to confront such rhetoric is through argument — not assassination. Those who disagreed wi

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