The words scribbled on the shell casings, bullets, and rifle tell us the motive as much as obfuscate it.
We do not need the killer to inform us of the underlying reason. We know it.
All assassins share a trait. Their victims nearly as universally share the opposite trait.
Charlie Kirk was a winner. We do not, as of filing, know his assassin’s name. We do know that he is a loser.
When we learn his name, it will lack familiarity. But by murdering Kirk, the rub to the famous and accomplished gives his name a glow — so he thinks.
Losers hate winners.
Winners dwell on losses. But they do not think about losers.
Losers, on the other hand, obsess over anyone enjoying life’s victories.
Losers, on the other hand, obsess over anyone enjoying life’s victories. They imagine their own pathetic state as outside of their control and similarly regard the bounty of success that others enjoy as deriving strictly from good luck. These views may seem distinct from the shooter’s stated political motives, reportedly involving transgenderism. They are actually connected (more on that later).
Many sober-minded Americans calculate that Kirk elected Donald Trump president in 2024 by changing minds among Generation Z and energizing the young male vote. We do not know what future victories an assassin’s bullet snatched from Americans.
Charlie Kirk stood six-foot-five. He was a millionaire who never graduated from college. He debated intelligently and attempted to teach his opponents patience and tolerance by practicing it. He married Miss Arizona. He fathered two beautiful little ones.
People want to follow a guy like that. He looked like the picture of success, which, to jaundiced eyes, looks ugly.
Success offends failures. It’s a nagging reminder of their inadequacies. This served as the underlying motive of the statuary murders of the summer of George Floyd. How dare society honor excellence? Here, it propelled yet another loser to kill yet another winner.
Kirk stood up against an ideological hallucination that imagines America’s greatness as coming at the expense of victimized nations, the successful deriving their wealth from money stolen from the poor, and “privileged” groups perpetually brutalizing the “oppressed.” It celebrates the alien and abnormal. It perpetually wages war against norms, standards, and traditions. Grievance, resentment, and envy fuel this ideology so all-consuming that those under its sway imagine the murder of a dad, husband, and beloved figure to millions as a righteous and good act.
The killer’s ideology undoubtedly reflected this oppressor-oppressed mindset. But it infected not just his politics but his soul. The trans obsession seems but an extension of this disease of the soul that internalizes several of the seven deadly sins.
Kirk texted Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) before his death: “Event I think is going to be a win.” On the day of his death, Charlie Kirk exhibited the attitude of a winner.
And by murdering the Turning Point USA founder, his assassin tacitly submitted in the argument with Charlie Kirk that occurred perpetually inside his brain. In Kirk’s last moment, he won the debate — just like every other speaker who has been shouted down on campus.
Winners don’t bite the other fighter’s ear or scream the other debater into silence. People losing break the rules out of the humiliation of a checkmate.
Charlie Kirk died as he lived — as a winner.
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