The Charlie Kirk Assassination and Descent Into Dictatorship at Warp Speed

The Magafication of America in Realtime

Within minutes of the first reports that long time MAGA influencer and Trump BFF Charlie Kirk had succumbed to an assassin’s bullet while speaking at Utah Valley University, Donald Trump was calling for revenge against the “radical left.” Trump’s deranged and dangerous statements were so egregious that in any other era in American history they would more than qualify him to be removed from office via the 25^th Amendment for being unfit for office. But this is not any other era. This is the era of American institutional and societal insanity, an era witnessing a complete and total breakdown of the U.S. body politic where it is plunged into a world of mirrors, a era of a dangerous psychosis where the ruling oligarchs project their own evil machinations onto their political opponents and all Americans who disagree with them.

MAGA looks at Democrats (and all who do not share their mental illness), and fueled by their increasing madness, see instead, their own horrific traits such as their fascination with cruelty, their lawlessness, their blatant racism, their love of violence and dictators, and their hatred for democracy. All the negative, dangerous, and un-American attributes and beliefs that MAGA holds dear are projected onto their political and cultural opponents, just the same way it is done with all who suffer from the most severe cases of psychosis. Unfortunately, the elected leader of this dangerous cult is perhaps the most severely afflicted psychotic of them all.

Below, I will list some of the most disturbing quotes from Trump’s statement in the immediate aftermath of the assassination. Before I do that however, I feel compelled to once again say that I do not support any form of political motivated violence. Not ever, regardless of the ideology or unpopularity of the intended victim of such violence. In this time of irrational social media posts that exist solely to enrage passions for no other reason than to collect clicks and emojis (or to inspire further acts of violence), it is unfortunately necessary to clearly state such obvious facts.

Having said that, it is at least as important to be able to separate the violent and unforgivable act of assassination from the victim. One can at once detest and denounce the act of violence that resulted in the wrongful death of an individual, and at the same time, not take steps to erase the truth about that individual and elevate him to sainthood as an example of unadulterated virtue and a symbol of all that is great about America. That is exactly what Trump did, but I simply refuse to do that because I can separate the two, and it is imperative that we all do the same thing or risk losing what is left of our right to free speech and our sanity. I, for one, do not intend to lose either, even though the MAGA Gestapo are out in full force right now tracking down all who have the nerve to say anything disparaging about Charlie Kirk.

Donald Trump, in his statements this week made in the Oval Office immediately after the assassination, attempted to make Charlie Kirk into a martyr, a heroic symbol who displayed the kind of virtues to which all Americans should aspire. The following are some quotes from Charlie Kirk that must be the kind of American virtues Trump was referring to:

On debate

We record all of it so that we put [it] on the internet so people can see these ideas collide. When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens, because you start to think the other side is so evil, and they lose their humanity.

– Kirk discussing his work in an undated clip that circulated on X after his killing.

Prove me wrong.

– Kirk’s challenge to students to publicly debate him during the tour of colleges he was on when he was assassinated.

On gender, feminism, and reproductive rights

Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.

– Discussing news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement on The Charlie Kirk Show, 26 August 2025

The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered.

– Responding to a question about whether he would support his 10-year-old daughter aborting a pregnancy conceived because of rape on the debate show Surrounded, published on 8 September 2024

We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 April 2024

On gun violence

I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.

– Event organized by TPUSA Faith, the religious arm of Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA, on 5 April 2023

On immigration

America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unafraid to do that.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 22 August 2025

The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 20 March 2024

The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 March 2024

There’s many more quotes like those, but I think these are more than enough examples to prove my point that Mr. Kirk was not someone who, in my opinion, was someone to whom all Americans should look up to as a standard bearer for American values or virtue. Of course I expect a backlash for saying that. Quoting his own words will definitely not be enough for stop MAGA from making him into make him into a martyr for their cause, and then to elevate him into a kind of MAGA/Christian Nationalist sainthood. In fact, I am almost certain that some kind of canonization is already underway.

Folks, we are fast sinking into the sewer of dictatorship and are now only inches/centimeters from going completely under that filth until our once proud constitutional republic, our democratic form of government is only a painful memory, just another failed experiment in self-governance to accompany the many other such failures throughout history. I wish I could say I know how this story will end and what will become of the American Experiment, but I simply do not know. Events, mostly of a terrifyingly negative nature, are indeed happening at warp speed. All I know for sure is that the situation is not looking very promising right now. Unless tens of millions of Americans wake the fuck up right now and get off of their collective asses, take to the streets in massive non-violent demonstrations between now and November 2026 to demonstrate to MAGA that they will not tolerate the destruction of their country and turns it into a dictatorship that benefits only billionaire oligarchs, then the American Experiment will end, perhaps with a bang, but most likely with a strangled whimper.

David DeBatto