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The Only Way To End Leftist Violence Is To Defeat Leftism Itself, by Joshua Monnington – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Joshua Monnington, The Federalist, September 19, 2025

Joshua Monnington is an assistant editor at The Federalist. He was previously an editor at Regnery Publishing and is a graduate of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

 

If Americans want to live in a country where young men aren’t assassinated for articulating truth, the political ideology that led to Charlie Kirk’s murder must be utterly and completely defeated.

Author Joshua Monnington profileThe brutal murder of Charlie Kirk has evoked an array of passionate and argued responses, many of which are misguided or patently false: We need to cool the rhetoric. Trump in power breeds unrest. Both sides of the political aisle engage equally in political violence. Kirk’s right-wing incendiary language had deadly consequences. The shooter was merely a paramour overwhelmed by protective passion.

These are all distractions (at the very least) from the truth about Charlie Kirk’s death: Charlie Kirk died because he went into spaces that were bastions of leftist thought and confronted an inherently violent ideology with biblical truth — and it is now the moral duty of those who remain to utterly discredit and defeat that ideology and the political movement it drives. …