/substancePolitics & policyBreakling reply @hisbelovedsleep /substance 2026-09-10
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Unless you’re one of the many far-right nationalists who seems to exclusively get their holiday news from the KamalaHQ twitter account, you know that today marks 1 year since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, followed tomorrow by the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Both tragedies hav…
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Conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's death went mainstream overnight, and the same media that once treated this kind of thing as dangerous misinformation is happy to amplify it now that the target is Trump and his base. The online right falls for it because it has replaced politics with content. Kirk's model was the opposite: recruit students, build chapters, register voters, raise money, move institutions. That is why the GOP moved right on immigration over ten years, from a 2013 autopsy urging amnesty to a 2025 show titled "Deportations Aren't Enough". Faux radicalism, where nothing achievable is ever radical enough, keeps you edgy and harmless. Trump's second term is doing things we were told could not be done. The way to continue Kirk's work is real-world organizing and loyalty to the vehicle we have, not chasing viral quote tweets. Tone rewrite only. Claims remain the author's and are not independently verified.