Be Like Charlie

How to replace the irreplaceable.

The prince we were promised.

I am still alternating between shock, grief, and anger. Mostly anger now. The terrifying scope of what happened on September 10th and what was stolen from Erika Kirk and her children, and from all of us, is just starting to sink in. His assassination was a catastrophe. His character assassination at the hands of our depraved elites and media is an abomination.

I met Charlie Kirk almost ten years ago in person. I was at the 2016 Politicon event in Pasadena to watch panels by various speakers from the right and the left. He was not widely famous yet, but I had been following him on Twitter for a while. I was sitting in an empty row waiting for the Tomi Lahren vs. Chelsea Handler debate to start in a large theater and he sat down a few seats away, in my row. I am normally not someone who approaches celebrities, but I was an admirer, so I got up, introduced myself, and told him I loved what he was doing.

In the last three years, Charlie invited me to do his show several times, and looking back I am humbled by how incredibly smart and quick and incisive he was, and how bumbling I seem by comparison. The last time I talked to him was the morning of the Altadena fires in L.A. His intelligence and charisma in person is intimidating; he was a genius.

I am very angry, yes. Every time a liberal opens their mouth and runs him down, slanders this prince of a man as a bad guy, I get angrier.

This will be my struggle to resolve in my heart.

Make America Great Again – by Making Yourself Like Charlie

There are two Charlies that were taken away that day: the family man, and the national figure.

Charlie Kirk the family man set an incredible example for all of us on how to approach life. To be 31 and married to a great person and have two kids is no easy feat in 2025. You have to make a lot of unpopular choices that your peers may mock you for to get to that place, but he did it. Unlike a lot of people who talk a lot about the importance and beauty of marriage and parenthood, he walked the walk, fully. That alone is remarkable.

For most of us, our lives will go on and the grief will fade, but his children will be grieving their dad every day of their lives until they themselves pass on. Their grief will be a continual presence and I weep for them.

I have also been ruminating on the loss of Charlie Kirk as a national leader, even a potential president. I have visions of what the future could have been. What would Charlie Kirk have done over the years and decades to fulfill his mission? Imagine all the incredible things he would have done to set the country right, to lead us to cultural and political victory after victory. He was singlehandedly making America great again in a million ways.

The loss of this is so enormous and we will never know its full contours.

When I think about it for too long I start to despair. How far did Tyler Robinson and his ideology set us back?

But dwelling on what could have been will only lead me into misery. I have therefore tried to think of ways to help mitigate the loss to the country. No one can do what he did and would have done. That chasm can never be filled. But maybe we can, as the saying goes, get stronger at the broken part. Maybe the only way, the best way, to help fill in some of what we lost is to commit ourselves even more to promoting the lifestyle Charlie Kirk chose for himself. These days, there are way too many options presented to kids as viable lifestyles—and all of them are treated as equally good.

Beyond politics and elections and the issues of the day, the thing that lasts is dynastic succession. Families. Couples who stick it and raise good kids, who will go on to raise more good kids. This simple act of love, of sacrifice, and total devotion has fallen out of favor for a huge majority of Gen Z.

A lot of young women are still misunderstanding Charlie’s anti-feminist message: becoming a wife and mother or a career woman is not either-or. It’s not one or the other. You can in fact be a wife, a mother, and a working professional. I am and I always have been. The key is to prioritize the right choices—the ones that result in the kind of bonus you will never get from a job or a boss.

Young men can be like Charlie by doing as he did: by setting ambitious goals and following through, even if it feels unpopular. By not allowing yourself to get addicted to pornography. By resisting the false allure of the Tinder dating landscape, which will only rob you of years of romantic love and time as a father. His example is to be brave, be bold, and not be afraid to stand out from your peers. Find new peers. Find people who love and appreciate what you stand for. Remove yourself from situations and friends groups that are trying to lead you astray. The Devil loves company and will go to great lengths to get yours!

And yes: go to church. All of this gets much easier if you can convince yourself to take a leap of faith. Jesus has all the cheat codes to life, and they know it, which is why Christians make lefties so apoplectic. They hate us cause they ain’t us.

The only way out of this black hole of grief and rage and sorrow is to be more like Charlie. We need to mint more Charlies. An army of Charlies. That’s what he was trying to do on college campuses, and it was working. His work to woo young people won the 2024 election! It swung Arizona! Republicans won young men in numbers never before seen!

Be like Charlie, and do it for your country and yourself.

Make America great again by making yourself like Charlie Kirk.

—Peachy

Rest in Peace, Charlie Kirk. God bless you.