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The left celebrates Kirik's life but there are far more who celebrate his life. Not just in America, but throughout the Western countries.
Grief over Kirk’s assassination echoes worldwide and testifies to his influence on the right
Grief over Kirk's assassination echoes worldwide and testifies to his influence on the right
Dozens of angry European lawmakers bang their hands on their desks after being denied a moment of silence to honor Charlie Kirk.
apnews.com
The assassination of Kirk in broad daylight at a Utah university this week has resonated well beyond the United States, highlighting in democracies around the globe the same yawning political divide that has riven America.
The outpouring of grief, anger and defiance over his death also testified to his influence and impact abroad, especially among groups on the right as diverse as white Afrikaners in South Africa, anti-immigration parties in Europe, libertarians in South America and ultranationalist Israelis in the Middle East. It also gave those movements an opportunity to air their grievances against their own political opponents.
“Charlie Kirk’s death is the result of the international hate campaign waged by the progressive-liberal left,” Viktor Orbán — Hungary’s populist prime minister who, like Kirk, has aligned himself with U.S. President Donald Trump and the American leader’s MAGA movement — wrote on X.
The reaction to Kirk’s death among groups on the right reflects the proliferation and rise of conservative and nationalist movements around the world. And Kirk — a Christian conservative, staunch supporter of gun rights and critic of the political and cultural elite — was emblematic of the way political conversations have increasingly crossed borders.
“The left is, at all times and in all places, a violent phenomenon filled with hatred,” wrote Argentine President Javier Milei, a radical libertarian, on X alongside a photo of him, Trump and Kirk. Milei has repeatedly railed against Socialists, feminists and transgender people and praised Trump’s MAGA movement for fighting what he calls “woke ideology.”
Nikolas Ferreira, who received the most votes of any federal lawmaker in Brazil’s last election, posted on social media that Kirk’s death “cries out against injustice and awakens hearts.”
“They want to silence us, but what they achieved was to awaken us. From every tear, courage is born; from every injustice, resistance is forged,” the 29-year-old former YouTuber said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads the most religious and nationalist government in Israel’s history, called Kirk a “defender of our common Judeo-Christian civilization.”
“Charlie was more than a friend of Israel. He was a great champion of our shared roots and values,” Netanyahu, a polarizing leader who has ruled Israel nearly uninterrupted for the last 16 years, said in a post on X.
Other figures on the right offered more somber words.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, one of the European leaders who is seen as most friendly with Trump, said she was “shocked” about the killing of Kirk.
“An atrocious murder, a deep wound for democracy and for those who believe in freedom,” she wrote on X. “My condolences to his family, to his loved ones, and to the American conservative community.” ____
