Kirk memorial’s religious and political mix hints at future of MAGA movement

The event, which honors conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a stadium in Arizona, was a mixture of memorial service, and to revive the great Christian religious and conservative political gathering.

He also provided a glimpse of a Republican party in a thorn on the road, and the weight of the choice between forgiveness and revenge; Reconciliation and conflict.

The leading lights of President Donald Trump met in the great America again to celebrate hours of Kirk’s life, which included music and a lot of speeches.

This event gave a glimpse into the possible direction of the Maga movement of Trump, after more than a decade after appearing on American policy.

Despite a series of prominent politicians speaking on Sunday night, the specified moment came when Erika Kirk, Charlie’s widow, seized the stage. The former beauty contestant, the podxter and the businesswoman, seized the opportunity to preach loneliness-including the forgiveness of her husband’s killer.

She said with her voice: “The answer to hatred is not hatred.” “The answer, we know from the Bible, is always love and love. Love for our enemies, and the love of those who persecute us.”

It was a strong speech from a woman who quickly found it in the harshest lights. Last week, Turning Point Usa was appointed as head of the conservative youth organization founded by her late husband, a group flowing with new energy and design in the wake of Kirk’s killing.

Sunday night has proven that Erika Kirk has strength and personality to be an effective general face of the Turning Point Usa point.

In the end, she can become an enormous candidate for public positions in her home in Arizona, the mandate of a major political battlefield. Her words were also displayed in contrast to the bomb and confrontation that identified most of the modern American policy.

If Erika Kirk gave a glimpse into a nice, nice future for conservative movement, Donald Trump, who immediately spoke to her, rapidly reminds that the Republican Party today may have completely different priorities.

“I hate my own and I do not want what is better for them,” Trump said, a muffled laugh. “Now that Erika can talk to me and with the entire group and they may be convinced that this is not true, but I cannot bear my opponent.”

Trump’s comments come just one day after a social position, in fact, the President demanded that the Ministry of Justice be tried political – including Senator in California Adam Chef, former FBI director James Kumi, and the Attorney General of New York Letia James.

The president also announced that he had launched a federal prosecutor recently announced that there is not enough evidence to charge James for a crime, to be replaced by a former defense lawyer.

Trump’s statements in the memorial service were heading towards this occasion, but he was not the only speaker who used the moment of promises against “enemies”.

“We are the storm,” said Stephen Miller. “Our enemies cannot understand our strength, design, solution, and passion.”

He went on to say that conservatives will fight for Western culture and traditions, and that their opponents have nothing but evil and jealousy.

“You have no idea about the dragon you woke up,” he said.

While the event had homogeneous observations, the general issue was closer to a religious revival – reminds us of the campaigns of the Billy Graham tent in the 1930s and the forties of the twentieth century or “great waking” in the nineteenth century.

The memorial service celebrated the Christianity of Charlie Kerk and promised a new enthusiasm among the American young people of traditional values ​​with evangelical enthusiasm.

Tens of thousands of supporters mobilized the stadium and millions of others who saw online. Certainly, these numbers encourage conservative leaders who want to see Christianity playing a more central role in American public and political life – a view that Kirk has crossed himself over and over again.

Kirk said in 2024: “America’s body was so Christian and was so available that our form and the structure of the government for the people who believe in Christ our Lord, in 2024,” said in 2024.

While Christianity has decreased in the United States in recent years, it is still a majority of faith. Most investigative studies show that younger Americans are less religious than their elders, indicating that other transformations can be in the store.

Kirk’s death may lead to religious awakening among American youth. However, if not, the evangelical discourse may be excluded on Sunday night as much as it unites – which increases the exacerbation of cultural and political divisions in the country.

We are only nine months after Trump’s second state, but on Sunday night, we may also have opening skirmishes in the Republican Presidential Nomination Competition for 2028.

Three potential competitors-Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Junior-had prominent speaking holes.

The three talked about the importance of their relationship with Kerk and their personal religion – which provides more traditional effects that contradict Trump’s speech. But there is still an ascetic political advantage for them.

“For Charlie, we will rebuild this United States of America to greatness,” Vans said. “For Charlie, we will never shrink, and we will never move, and we will never get stuck, even when we stare in the barrel of the gun.”

Kennedy described how Kirk changed the “path of history” – and the risks of challenging “rhetoric interests”. Rubio Kirk praised the Inspiration of the Americans, “Living a fruitful life, marriage, the start of a family, and loved your country.”

Trump was, of course, a prominent speaker in the assembly, but the President of the United States was not the dominant force in the way that was often on political occasions.

On Sunday, conservatives started taste those who may become major players on the national stage once Trump left the scene.

When talking about the main players, Sunday night witnessed the return of one of the most prominent figures in the first days of Trump’s second state.

Elon Musk, who was billions of technology, who was closely close to Trump before the fall of the dramatic audience in June, visited the President’s Fund at the Phoenix event and had a friendly conversation.

Trump told reporters after that. “He came; we have a conversation.”

Ashraf Musk, who headed the “Ministry of Governmental efficiency” of Trump earlier this year, was dismissed by federal workers and trying to budget discounts.

He separated with the president from a $ 3.4 billion spending bill, and later promised to start his political party.

Trump Musk’s reconciliation was definitely the most important development of memorial service, but it may be one of the most unexpected match – and who knows where it might do.