Headlines about the Charlie Kirk memorial yesterday,
- Fox News: Erika Kirk says late husband’s death sparked ‘revival’ at Arizona memorial.
- NBC News: Charlie Kirk’s memorial serves as a conservative ‘revival,’ mixing calls for forgiveness and vengeance.
- The Economist: After Charlie Kirk’s murder, conservatives hope for a religious revival.
- The Hill: Trump, MAGA figures honor Charlie Kirk and point to ‘revival’
- U.K. Guardian: Charlie Kirk memorial mixes rally and revival as mourners vow to spread Maga message.
- Wall Street Journal: Invoking a ‘Revival,’ GOP Hopes Kirk’s Legacy Unites and Endures
The “R” word is in the air today. All sentient beings have observed that something has changed. But what? And what does it mean?
I’ve embraced the term “Cold Civil War” and described the current moment as an unveiling, where deep eternal truths that we’ve always known, but didn’t know that we knew, or had forgotten, are being revealed.
I’ve also been saying since the last election that we could be in a new Golden Age, if we would just let it happen.
So what’s going on across the aisle? The Huffington Post speculates,
The U.S. Is Experiencing ‘National Trauma’ — And It Explains Why So Many Of Us Feel Miserable.
People on the left are waking up to the uncomfortable truth that they are in a small minority, and they may in fact be, The Baddies.
Some people say the United States is in a period of “national trauma,” a psychological phenomenon in which negative events severely impact an entire group (in this case, Americans).
Well, not all Americans. In addition to the Charlie Kirk murder, HuffPo mentions, “wars, inflation, tariffs, anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ legislation—the list goes on and on.”
After many, many paragraphs of psychobabble, the piece concludes,
At this moment in time, we are tasked with finding the balance between caring engagement and self-preservation, so that we can continue to find connection and find our way through this moment.
The only way out is through.
