Today is the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s death, which I mark in a new article in UnHerd.
I have a good friend who is upset that I am critical of Kirk because he was in their mind a good person, but we all live our lives a certain way, and I consider his mainstreaming of conspiracy theories, tribalism, and white nationalism to be an important factor in making the modern right what it is. There’s no clearer, or more ironic, demonstration of this than his promotion of Tucker Carlson.
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The right is enamored with conspiracy theorists and the like. The left is currently swayed by crazed social justice warriors. It’s like the most sane prominent faction in politics is old school boomers representing the stodgy establishment wings of the republicans and democrats.
Hate to tell you but the right is inherently that way.