1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

What is wrong with you? How can something so horrific happen, and your response is peace and pageantry? Charlie Kirk does not deserve national honor. He was a man who openly preached hate, echoed fascist rhetoric, and fueled a political movement rooted in exclusion, domination, and violence. He used his platform to promote dangerous figures like Andrew Tate, to normalize white nationalist sentiments, and to incite hostility against anyone who didn’t look, worship, or live exactly like him. And now, in a grotesque twist, someone from his own MAGA base — someone who mirrored his ideology and his appearance — murdered him. That is not martyrdom. That is consequence. Charlie Kirk does not deserve a flag at half-mast. He does not deserve to lie in state. He does not deserve a statue paid for by the American taxpayer. We do not build monuments to Hitler. We do not build monuments to Trump. We should not build one to Charlie Kirk. If even a single federal dollar is spent to honor this man, it will be seen as a government endorsement of hate. Any member of Congress who votes to enshrine his name in stone should understand that voters will remember — and history will not be kind. This country is at a crossroads. You can side with dignity, decency, and democracy — or you can side with cruelty, cowardice, and collapse. Choose carefully. The world is watching.