Charlie Kirk was a man everyone should look up to in some way. He was smart, successful, pious, kind, and had a beautiful wife and children. His courage in consistently stepping into the public sphere to both spread the gospel of Christ and revive American Nationalism was exceedingly commendable. He was instrumental in influencing countless young men, which was a huge factor in getting Donald Trump elected in 2024. I didn’t always agree with him, but I appreciated him and his work.

When I heard that he was murdered in cold blood in the public square, I was in shock. I couldn’t work. The next few days I found myself fluxing between anger, sadness, and prayer for his family and our nation. Videos of his death replayed in my mind. His death changed me.

What was so disturbing about Charlie’s killing was that Charlie just wanted to talk. He wasn’t a legislator or a magistrate with power. He was an activist; He went to college campuses and public spaces, and had conversations with people of a variety of viewpoints. He didn’t isolate himself in an echo chamber or hide behind a keyboard; he met people where they were, stood in the gap, pushed back against the darkness, and always sought to win the person he was talking to. He did what so many normal men ought to be doing; reasoning with their fellow citizens and standing for the truth. He just wanted to talk.

The Left killed him for just wanting to talk.

Before he was killed, I think there was still a small part of me that thought the Left could be tolerated. Perhaps I thought all that would be necessary to beat the Left would be to win a majority consensus against them, attenuating their public influence, yet still allowing their viewpoints to be expressed publicly. Perhaps some of my public school indoctrination was still holding on, some small piece of my subconscious that still believed in liberalism, democracy, and the “marketplace of ideas” would eventually return us to some kind of peaceful political consensus.

Whatever it was, that piece of me was killed on September 10.

Kirk’s death is not an isolated event. The Left has always been the party of violence and death. BLM burns cities, transgenders shoot up Christian schools, women are stabbed to death on subways, and 1 in 5 pregnancies end in abortion in the United States, all because of Leftists and Leftist politics. Overtly oppose the Left, and at best you’re unemployable; at worst your car is burned, the windows of your business are smashed, your child is transed without your knowledge or consent, you’re on trial for your life because you defended someone else’s on a subway, or you’re dead. Kirk’s shooter was not a lone radical; he was exactly consistent with Left wing ideology and tactics. The Left did not lament his death, or cry out that it was injustice, or denounce the shooter. Instead, social media filled up with Leftist celebrations, jokes, and memes, the sentiment of which ranged from “I mean he kinda deserved it” to “Please be dead!”.

The Left doesn’t want to talk. They shot the man who just wanted to talk, and threw a party.

I sat out under the stars the night after he was shot, thinking and praying. I thought about Charlie Kirk. I thought about my nation, and my church, and what God was doing in them. And then I thought about my wife and kids, and I realized something.

I no longer want to defeat the Left. I want to rout the Left. For the sake of my children, I want to purge Leftism from American politics forever, because I finally see what the Left is.

The Left is not just an alternative political viewpoint; it is a civic cancer that threatens to consume and destroy our nation, our churches, our families, and our souls. This ideology cannot simply be refuted. It will not be reasoned with. If the Left cannot converse, negotiate, or compromise, and if its primary means of political advancement are violence, deception, and killing, then it cannot be tolerated in any aspect of public life. It must be met with raw political power. This is the only logical conclusion.

The task assigned to the Right wing in this moment is to muster the necessary political will to defeat the Left once and for all. We are in a Nehemiah situation, tasked by God in this moment to rebuild from the ruins of Protestant Christendom. Like the Jews after they were comissioned to the Holy Land by Darius, we find ourselves tasked with a long and difficult project in the midst of hostile enemies. We need a temple and a wall; victory will not come without reclaiming true religion and the establishment of strong political presence. This, as in Nehemiah’s day, is the present assignment of every man. The past week has seen the most mobilization and unification of the Right wing in recent history. We must reorient our strategy from conversation to construction, and from critiquing to conquering. Like Ezra, every Christian father, husband, pastor, and magistrate must prophecy against the Left, and purge Left-wing influences from religion, family life, and politics, with no exceptions or tolerance. We must be unified for the reconstruction of a Christian America. The wall must be built, the temple must be restored. The Left must be utterly routed.

And no, political violence is not an option, since we are not Leftists.

Charlie Kirk is dead, but I pray that his biggest impact is just beginning. Hear, Lord, our appeal to Heaven.