Bloke spends his life eating raw meat and looking directly into the sun for health benefits and he was nearly just written off by Fred Flintstone’s car while warming up.
When Kirk was killed, I was really worried the administration was going to turn it into a Horst Wessel moment and institute a major crackdown on civil liberties. They didn’t for two reasons: one unpredictable, one predictable. Nobody predicted that a popular movement would turn his death into a punchline, which deflated the dire threats of right-wing figures and made them seem fatuous. In the second, which anyone could have predicted, Trump just didn’t put that much effort into canonizing Kirk, because he doesn’t care about anyone but himself. He believes (after surviving an assassination attempt) that if you get assassinated, you’re a loser. So despite lesser figures like Vance and Tucker Carlson trying to turn Charlie Kirk into a martyr, their leader couldn’t be arsed, and martyrdom failed. And so we have this as his legacy.
When fascism comes to the UK, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be as an old man twatting a young woman in the head with an NHS walking stick...