Charlie Kirk or the deaths that change the world
By: Beatrice E. Rangel - 16/09/2025
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One autumn evening, Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by the Jewish fundamentalist Yigal Amir, who rejected the peace process with Palestine and considered the champion of the Oslo Peace Accords a traitor. His death forever sealed the fate of the Middle East, as with him went all hope of reaching agreements that would lead to a lasting peace. And today we witness the consequences with horror.
In 1948, when India was barely a year old, Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated by the Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse. The country was reeling from the violence of the Partition between India and Pakistan, and Gandhi's death signaled the freezing of India's secularization, with the resulting exploitation, violence, and abuse of the Dalit, or untouchable, class. Much later, the Indian diaspora would resume the path to gradually achieve secularism and the incorporation of Dalits into progress.
In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, a city deeply opposed to racial integration. His death plunged the United States into a wave of violence unprecedented in history. His legacy, however, laid a solid foundation for racial integration.
Today we witnessed with astonishment the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a significant leader of what has come to be known as MAGA culture in the United States. Kirk was followed by hordes of young people who found in him the gifts of the clarity of his messages, the passion for freedom, and the absolute rejection of the government structures that, according to him, had robbed citizens of their ability to govern. For Kirk, Western culture is the lifeline of a perverted world that has driven thousands of human beings to misery and drug addiction. Globalization has robbed American citizens of their jobs, and the family is subjected to destructive cultural pressures when homosexuality is exalted and abortion is defended. And Kirk constructed and disseminated this creed long before Donald Trump appeared on the scene. In fact, Kirk founded Turning Point, the platform for disseminating his ideas, when he was barely 18 years old.
And it's Donald Trump who's seeking him out to support his political career. Kirk was convinced that only someone like Trump could put an end to the uncontrolled growth of immigration and the American state apparatus; the uncontrolled expansion of debt; and the gift of foreign trade to all nations of the world. And it was once convinced of this that he decided to support Donald Trump's aspirations.
The question then arises about the origins of Kirk's creed. These origins lie in the greatest destruction of the middle class in the West since World War II. Prior to this holocaust, two consecutive wars destroyed the German middle class, driving many of its members to suicide. And while something of this magnitude has not happened in the United States, the truth is that 12 percent of the population was thrown into poverty by a succession of economic crises in just two decades. Indeed, in 2000, the internet bubble burst, destroying five trillion dollars in market capitalization. A large portion of the savings of the American middle class vanished. Then, in 2008, the mortgage bubble burst, wiping out 10 trillion dollars in household and individual assets. And if these crises weren't enough, in 2001, Americans watched in terror as the World Trade Center towers disappeared under a terrorist attack unprecedented in history. The result was that approximately 12% of the American middle class became poor and 40% of the population viewed the state apparatus as an expensively useless entity incapable of regulating the economy and protecting them from enemies. Thus, the foundations of the anti-globalization ideology and the anti-strong government arose.
Charlie Kirk was perhaps the best spokesperson for this ideology, which hides the suffering of a people who had believed their territory was inviolable and their prosperity eternal. And while the recovery of the American economy continues and organized crime continues its rampant trade in drugs, human beings, and counterfeit goods, the so-called Maga creed has roots in a grim and punishing reality for many Americans. From this experience could emerge a return to the roots of the formation of the American state, where power resides in the people who elect and impart political directives to their leaders. And this begins in city halls and ends in Washington, D.C. But a serious conflict could also arise to the extent that maga and anti-maga groups decide to take the path of violence.
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