Charlie Kirk’s Life And Death Show Why We Must Fight To Win
Rich Lusk
In the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination and memorial service, I’ve thought a lot about what Americans have endured over the past five or so years.
In January 2021, things looked quite bleak. Joe Biden’s suspicious victory was confirmed, the Jan. 6 protest turned into a disaster for conservatives, and it looked like leftism’s rolling revolution would keep steamrolling all of us.
Christians and conservatives could have easily thrown in the towel and swallowed the black pill. We could have waved the white flag of surrender in the culture war. Instead, we did something I don’t think the left really expected: We fought back.
We fought back hard. And we fought to win, even though it looked like a lost cause. We have lived out that wonderful line from G. K. Chesterton: “The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle — and not lose it.” That’s what we’ve done. Everything looked lost, we fought back anyway, and we found that we really can turn our country around. We have experienced what many have called a vibe shift.
We’re only in the beginning stages, and there is much more work to be done. Every victory in the culture war is fragile, so let no man boast. But this is the point: Just when it looked like the culture war was over and the left could declare total victory, the right staged an astounding comeback. This chapter of our nation’s story will make exciting fodder for historians in the future. The right was a heavy underdog but pulled off a huge upset. No one knows what the future holds, but there are countless reasons for optimism right now.
Today’s political right is far from perfect. Every political movement has its flaws and its riffraff. See, for example, David’s band of outlaws who joined his movement in the wilderness in 1 Samuel 22. That’s true of our movement too. But the quality of leadership, the widespread respect for the Bible and the church, and the kind of cultural and political discussions taking place on the right, such as overturning Obergefell and outlawing pornography, are in sharp contrast to the explicit “celebration” of perversion and the total lack of leadership in the Democrat Party.
The differences really could not be more stark. The left has no vision for the country and no love for America and her heritage. They want to drive God and prayer out of public life. Democrats are all about promoting sexual deviance and the coming climate catastrophe, and they endlessly accuse normal, decent people of being racists, bigots, and fascists. The radical left supports things like government-run grocery stores (like that’s never been tried!) and the use of political violence, including mobs, riots, and shootings.