Charlie Kirk Died for Freedom, Not Liberty.

Dear America,

I’d written 2 entries about Charlie Kirk but parked it to process through Candace Owen’s investigation first. I caution in watching it. Candace Owen’s believes what she’s saying and while there is plenty of interesting information — one must also be conscious of where she moves beyond investigation to opinion. Throughout her videos I have to remind myself that Candace Owen’s is agreeing with me and not the other way around.

For a second, I risked turning into an establishment Progressive romanticizing “let’s agree to disagree”. A strategy that dictated post-Civil War Reconstruction to provide a safe space to the treasonous Confederates after losing their “let the States decide” war. A legacy that embraces the treasonous Confederacy into American culture today. One that celebrates the Daughters of the Confederacy instead of categorizing them as domestic terrorists.

For a second, I also sympathized with Charlie. An understanding that maybe had he not dropped out of community college, he would have accessed maximum American Constitutional understanding and not selectively grasped onto originalist thinking to rage bait his way into political actor status as a podcaster. A nation does not mourn an individual outside of official politics, military duty, or enforcement except when it’s a mirroring of Robert E. Lee’s ideologies that need to be glorified into normalization.

Those who know America, who have studied America — recognize that Charlie Kirk did not love the American Constitutional Republic but the American Empire. It is to love originalism, not textualism. It is to love American history, not American Constitutionalism. It is to love the idea of America, not the actual social contract. The Constitution is seen as a biblical text where you can pick and choose what is binding.

The 2nd Amendment and Freedom of Speech become center to why other provisions should be sacrificed. National security, becomes defined as foreign policy allowing for fundamental erasure for a politicized project outside our borders. Charlie advocated for an America where we suffered to sustain an illusion of American exceptionalism and imperialism without actually doing the work to be great domestically.

Still, for a second I empathized with the fact that at least he believed his own bullshit; not as personal truth but objective truth — when the only objective truth in America begins and ends at Constitutional truth. How like plenty of politicians and influencers he made deals influenced by financial incentive to amplify messaging and therefore, committed to outside narratives to keep the support. If Charlie and I held differences, for a second the fact that his assassination is seemingly more likely to have been facilitated through foreign actors makes me grieve an America where the government protected citizens and not our threats; whether that is an enemy or an ally.

Charlie Kirk vocalized his intention to leave the pro-Israel cause within the last 78-hours of his life. It angered plenty. Our common ground then became the truth that unlike Ben Shapiro his red line was a commitment to America and not its sacrifice to a foreign government. That alone deserves to be commended even if we loved two different versions of America.

If the United States Constitution is supreme then the Bible, or any religious text cannot be.

If the United States Constitution is supreme then Originalism cannot be.

If the United States Constitution is supreme then theology cannot be.

If the United States Constitution is supreme then personal opinion cannot be.

Yet, Charlie Kirk believed that freedom of speech means freedom to govern. Freedom to exclude. Freedom to rewrite without Article 5. Freedom to strip provisions you don’t like and force absolute governing from only those you respect due to an uneducated belief that God somehow ratified the United States Constitution and the belief that the contract ties us to originalist ideologies rather than to each other as we are, not who we were.

I empathized with the fact that Charlie was transforming. But in the shadows. Not in public. Because everything he built is founded on Christian Nationalism so even his transition into entertaining Catholic rituals would never have culminated since Christian extremism does not include Catholics. Catholics think it does but even cradle Catholics know this is untrue.

Charlie, whether assassinated by a groyper or a foreign conspiracy didn’t deserve to be killed. The right to life of Constitutional persons is core to the founding of our nation and the 2nd Amendment only an asset to secure this safety against nonconsensual life-taking during times of peace and non-self defense. Still, Charlie and his fans promoted the very policy that killed him. From absolute gun rights to gifting the American government to Zionist foreigners, he made the bed that betrayed him.

He didn’t die for freedom of speech. He died for trusting the wrong people. A unjustified safety and comfort that all Americans exist in. One that was probably true at one point but not anymore.

He didn’t deserve to die but he also doesn’t deserve to be celebrated. He did nothing but further rot our nation into the autocratic crisis it exists in today. Not for Constitutional truth but for his personal truth. Not for Constitutional Liberty but for personal freedom at the sacrifice of Constitutional supremacy.

Real American patriots die for Liberty. A sacrifice of personal freedoms for our common Constitutional goals of a more perfect union under the Constitutional moral compass, not your own.

He grabbed onto free speech and freedom of religion like Republicans have onto the 2nd amendment and conservative SCOTUS to originalism. Forgetting that constitutional supremacy means balance to the entirety of the contract, not your favorite at the sacrifice of the entire thing.

That’s not a patriot to the country. It is a patriot to the empire. And an American’s oath isn’t to the historical empire but the constitutional union.

Charlie sacrificed constitutional truth for personal truth. Yet, Charlie didn’t die because of free speech. He died because someone believed he was better gone than here. This wasn’t the left. It was the very people he championed and trusted.

Entries due will be uploaded after this.

— The Coneflower Resistance