Charlie Kirk and figures like him don't just promote aggressive, zero-sum politics. They give their performance while claiming Christian faith as their foundation, so that they can claim a moral high ground.

What we're witnessing is the culmination of centuries of domestication, the transformation of a fundamentally subversive message into a tool of the very power structures it once challenged. True Christianity is dead in the United States. #RIP

We have a remarkably effective system of control in the United States: a population that thinks it is still Christian, but yet doesn't know what that actually means.
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Politicians often get rewarded for "owning" the other side rather than passing legislation these days. Performative conflict trumps actual problem-solving in government.

Political disagreement becomes moral war, making it harder to maintain relationships across political lines, in families, communities, and workplaces. Politics bleeds into everything, poisoning wells that once sustained civic life.

American Christianity remains a force for division and control rather than the subversive, power-challenging, radically inclusive movement it once was.
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The religion becomes a tribal identity and political weapon rather than the ethical revolution it may have started as. "Christian" becomes a team jersey, not a way of life that would actually disrupt comfortable power structures.

If you genuinely believe the other side will end America, then winning by any means becomes justified. Bending rules, rejecting election results, undermining institutions, these become patriotic acts rather than dangerous precedents.