Charlie Kirk was the modern conservative movement’s most courageous and dynamic young figure.

Rather than being a talking head from the safety of a secured television studio, Charlie ventured out to the heart of the den of vipers  that are college campuses not to preach to ideologically like-minded folks but to engage with those who believed or merely accepted the statist leftist narrative.

He practiced his politics like a New Testament apostle, in fearless fervor and exposure.

Charlie opened himself to public challenge and ridicule before prepped opponents and the unforgiving eternal internet.

No individual- left or right as neither side has a monopoly on intellectually vapid shills heavily “invested” in brand or image- would take such a risk of stature, and by extension, money.

But Charlie did.

Why?

Not just because he was smart and well spoken- though he was both.

But Charlie possessed the best advantage anyone could have in any debate or argument- truth.

Truth is an obstruction even the most artful debater cannot dislodge if you stand by it.

And that is what frustrated his adversaries to the brink of madness.

And eventually madness manifests into rage that is ultimately expressed through violence.

Charlie had to have known at some point he would have his own Butler, Pennsylvania moment. And has a husband and father Charlie could’ve stepped back into safer confines.

He made his name many times over and had nothing more to prove

Yet he kept doing it because Charlie was about the movement.  There were always minds to change, hearts to soften, and yes souls to save because atheism and leftism are sibling schools of thought as they both espouse the supremacy and thus arrogance of man.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to US Representative William Stephens Smith that the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

This was not an invitation to commit violence by America’s greatest political thinker; it was an assertion that one must be prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice to keep our nation free.

Without liberty, America is just Canada with beaches.

Charlie understood Jefferson’s words and lived by them and regrettably died by them.

The proper reaction to the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk is not vengeance but vigilance and courage. We must save America one mind at a time through leaving our comfort zones, recognize the humanity of even those rabid and hate-possesed individuals on the other side, and challenge them in a civil and dignified manner, armed with truth.

May Charlie ‘s memory be both a blessing and an example of what is expected for all of us who are willing to maintain a truly free society.