We say ‘Amen’ to Erika Kirk’s message of free – Latest News
President Donald Trump ought to heed the daring, courageous message of religion, hope and forgiveness Erika Kirk delivered Sunday.
It was one of the best American speeches of this century — and factors the nation to a higher approach, one it desperately wants.
As Erika mentioned, the reply to hate isn’t hate.
Erika Kirk talking at her late husband Charlie Kirk’s funeral on Sept. 21, 2025. Aristide Economopoulos
And for Trump it dangers dragging his administration and the entire nation down.
Justified anger on the toxic left and the poisonous media — and in any respect the deceptions and abuses of energy concerned in attempting to take Trump down these final 10 years — doesn’t imply combating fire with fire needs to be the one reply.
In specific, clamping down on free speech isn’t the best way.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi final week appeared to see a “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment. In the maelstrom of anger at Jimmy Kimmel’s vile remarks, Federal Communications Commission chief Brendan Carr mentioned his company could be “going to have remedies that we can look at.”
A annoyed Trump additionally posted on social media over the weekend demanding that Pam Bondi go after his political opponents tougher and sooner.
But we’re hoping the widow’s call for participating with the opposite facet will get by to him.
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It is, after all, not simply what Charlie would do, however what he did — with big success, as Turning Point’s explosive growth attests.
We at The Post know in addition to anybody what’s it like to be censured.
Big Tech, the mainstream media and main political actors labored in collusion to throttle our attain after we raised impertinent questions on Covid’s origin, challenged the Black Lives Matter motion and reported on the Hunter Biden laptop computer scandal.
But getting the First Amendment proper means a conservative “disinformation czar” could be each bit as obscene because the liberal one the Biden crew tried to impose.
The nation does face a disaster of political violence, principally from the left. Democratic politicians and celebrities need to stop priming their supporters to lash out and signaling that violence is OK. The feds have each proper and obligation to examine and prosecute Antifa and different organizers of violence once they break the law.
It’s if you’ve chosen the punishment first, then rushed to justify it, that issues go astray.
Trump ought to heed Erika’s call for forgiveness: Bending each federal sinew to get back at those that abused their energy to attempt to jail and bankrupt him will solely lead to additional cycles of escalating political warfare and hatred, particularly when the Democrats sometime return to energy.
Tit-for-tat battles level in just one direction: to more violence, damage and division — with the public studying to trust politicians and your complete authorities ever much less.
And the nation is already exhausted from this insanity.
Trump half-joked on the memorial that he disagreed with Charlie and Erika, since he does hate his opponents, and “I don’t want the best for them.”
But he ought to ask himself, does he need the best for himself, his celebration and the American people?
If so, he wants to suppose deeply on the teachings of Charlie and Erika.
