On 10 September, conservative American pundit Charlie Kirk, 31, was shot and killed in a university campus in Utah. Kirk is most famous for founding Turning Point, an organisation that seeks to move university students away from leftist ideology and to promote centre right views. Kirk’s main approach was to visit university campuses and just talk to students. His key theme was that the Anglosphere and Europe are built on Christianity, and that these countries require Christian citizens to remain recognisable and governable. (Note on personal bias: This is precisely my view, though I am further to the right on the question of national identity). Kirk’s most controversial view was fully fact-based: that black individuals commit violent crime at a very disproportionate rate. FBI data and London crime statistics corroborate that view.
The FBI reported that it recovered a Mauser .30-06 “imported” hunting rifle used in the assassination and some images of the suspect. One online influencer and the WSJ claim that the bullets in the gun had pro-trans and antifa inscriptions. We are unable to verify this, but believe that this was a political murder by the left - there is simply no other reason to target Kirk.
Unprecedented divisions
In a revealing scene in Congress, a moment of prayer was suggested for Kirk’s soul. Some Democrat lawmakers yelled and objected. A Republican lawmaker accused the Democrats of causing his murder. The prayer went ahead anyway. In the EU Parliament, a moment of silence was suggested. The president of the Parliament refused.
The key point to remember is that even in Congress and the EU Parliament - the supposed political elite - the divide is so severe that even a prayer for the repose of the soul of a centre right liberal pundit was controversial for the mainstream left, and that the right holds the left responsible for the assassination of one of its top leaders. The division at the top reflects an increasingly intense vertical division at every level of Western societies.
Critically, this is coming at a time of rising political violence - from the 2017 attempt to kill Republican Congressional leaders, through the plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the January 6, 2021 riots, the Trump assassination attempts, the murder and attempted murder of Democratic elected representatives in 2025 in Minnesota, and, now, the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
The left’s predicament
The left is a victim of its own success. They have won every cultural and legal battle since the Second World War. These include cradle to grave welfare, mass immigration, multiculturalism, homosexual marriage, abortion (with the recent reversal of Roe v Wade being a rare exception that only moved the issue to the states), transgenderism, DEI, lax law enforcement, equalities legislation, and even the policing of speech. In all these issues, the left has been able to get the state to side with it in almost every major country in the EU and the Anglosphere.
However, the results of these victories have been catastrophic: collapsing birth rates, lawlessness, crime-infested cities, segregated communities, sectarianism, and racial conflict. Thus, the left finds itself unable to make any further gains, but, due to the ideology of intersectionality and allyship, it is unable to make any concessions either. Rather, it views conceding on one point as conceding on all. And since it is materialistic, it has no moral restraints, but rather views those who disagree with it as inferior and evil - Nazis, homophobes, white supremacists, etc… This clearly leaves no room for dialogue or compassion - as evidenced by the objections to a moment of silence and prayer for Kirk. The left hope to completely shut out the right from debate, to avoid admitting their errors.
The next logical conclusion from some of the left’s perspective is to engage in violence to hold on to its gains, as it knows full well that once delusional ideas like transgenderism unravel, other ideas, like same-sex marriage, ‘hugs not bullets’ for criminals, or welfare for the able bodied and for foreigners, may follow suit.
The right’s perspective
For the right, the battle across the West is one battle, with the left using similar tactics across Europe and the Anglosphere to shut down the right and exclude its views from the debate, let alone power. From their perspective (and mine), Kirk is a classical liberal centrist, who spent his life arguing and debating, and never used violence. The left murdered him, celebrated his murder, and called for more murders. This shuts down debate, as one side is talking while the other is using terrorism.
With the murder of Kirk, the left have gone after the most important conservative voice in America who had believed that they could be reasoned with - perhaps even the last one. In Britain, the left is increasingly allied with Islamists with jihadi tendencies, in a bid to win their votes and keep on containing the right. The same dynamic is at play in France and elsewhere in Europe.
Given the threat from Islam to the foundations of Western societies, this is increasingly viewed as treason by the right. And since the left will not allow electoral politics to play out without nasty tricks such as putting Donald Trump on trial, or banning Marine le Pen from running, or isolating the AfD, the utility of electoral politics is becoming increasingly unclear for some on the right.
Executive action?
American President Donald Trump - who himself had had two attempts made on his life during the 2024 campaign - blamed the demonisation of conservatives by the left for the shooting, for his own assassination attempts, and for the 2017 attempted murder of Republican Congressional leaders. He also correctly linked leftist ideology with attacks on ICE agents, responsible for removing illegal aliens from America, and on judges and others (an armed man had attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022).
Trump vowed to go after the financiers of the far left activist groups responsible for unrest and criminality of this sort. The financiers, however, include a number billionaires, such as the Pritzker family, Michael Bloomberg, Matt Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, and Warren Buffett. These are extremely powerful individuals who will retaliate strongly to their power being reduced. State governors, legislators, judges, attorney generals, and others who rely on their donations will support them.
Furthermore, the left has institutional support from the EU and most European governments, as well as enormous influence in the media. Any fight between them and Trump will play out throughout the West. And this, in turn, makes it more necessary for Trump to engage in this fight, if he wants to succeed in consolidating American influence over Europe and the Anglosphere.
Commercial Impact
We have argued for some time that there will be a major rise in racism in the West. This will include several components: an awareness of the unique national identity of each country in the Anglosphere and Europe, hostility to migration, hostility to ethnic minorities, and hostility to Jews.
Historically, the rise of fascism in Spain and Italy, and of Nazism in Germany, was the result of a violent dialectic between the right and the left. After enough leftist violence and chaos, the public would accept any ideology so long as it made the trains run on time and kept the streets safe.
If Trump goes after the leftist billionaires who finance the various protest groups and support defunding the police or weak district attorneys, their initial reaction will likely be to increase funding for his opponents, on the condition that Democratic elected officials oppose Trump even more radically. This will entrench political division and paralysis in the USA, and encourage Trump to deploy the National Guard to more cities and states.
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