WASHINGTON DC – If any lingering doubts existed about where the Republican Party’s centre of gravity now resides, Charlie Kirk’s memorial service on Sunday provided a moment of clarity.

As more than 100,000 people gathered at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, to pay tribute to the conservative activist who was killed on a Utah university campus on 10 September, seemingly the entire pantheon of Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement was present to honour Kirk’s memory. The event also seemed to place Kirk’s Christian nationalist ideological message at the very heart of Republican politics.

The memorial was a place for true believers to express their agony over the slaying of the Turning Point USA founder. The slogan “I Am Charlie” was emblazoned on signs, shirt

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