We have come to a point in our short history where using terms like racist, misogynist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and bigot to describe someone whom we disagree with has become our only defense. And let’s get real, the disagreements that people have with Charlie Kirk are either policy related or are in opposition to his biblical worldview. I watched scores of people step up to debate Kirk on an issue they only had an emotional attachment to. Many of them failed to arm themselves with facts or truth. And this is what we are battling against—the rebellion against truth. Often, when the counter argument was proposed by Kirk and the debater realized that he or she didn’t have an answer that held any weight, they’d call him a hater, or insult him, or curse him, or physically assault him, then walk away. Anger, hate, bitterness, and violence became the only defense when debate, facts, truth, and conversation failed. Sound familiar?

This is the word that encompasses all of these other negative claims about Charlie Kirk’s character. A man who is racist, misogynist, anti-Semitic, homophobic bigot is a pretty bad guy. It is amazing that 6 NFL teams held a moment of silence for this man. Christian churches around the world wept and held vigils for him. Christian music artists wrote songs for him, defended him on social media, and, as a result, unapologetically lost thousands of followers for it. I will make a baseless claim, but it is a powerful observation. Would these institutions and Christian believers back a man who was categorically evil and hateful?

What these accusations against Kirk describe is the alt-right movement, which unashamedly makes claims to each of these titles. These alt-right groups (one is called Groypers and is headed by Nick Fuentes, if you want to look into it) attacked Kirk many times for his conservative views, which they claimed were soft. Charlie Kirk was attacked by the left and the alt-right, placing him closer to the middle than the masses give him credit for. If you actually take a moment and look into what the alt-right stands for, who they are, and what they are doing, you will see that the Republican party, Conservative America, and Charlie Kirk denounce them, disagree with them, and do not claim any ties or unity to them.

The alt-right is truly fascist in thought and deed. Nobody argues they are white-supremacists, anti-semitic, racist, misogynists, and extreme nationalists. They boldly proclaim it. If one were to study what fascism and alt-right policy actually looked like, you could not deny that the Republican party, Conservative Americans, and Charlie Kirk held moral and ethical values far removed from this group.

A Democrat representative from Minnesota called Charlie Kirk a right-wing fascist a day after he was assassinated. A person from our own government made these claims, which transpose onto the Republican party and the current face of the United States. Those are extreme and dangerous claims to make. Claims that have no foundation to stand on, yet these are the people we put in office. People who repeat social media memes, participate in tit-for-tat accusational arguments, and make no progress towards unity, sensibility, and truth.

Charlie Kirk often acknowledged inalienable rights to every human being, called for the death of no one, and believed in a free society and market. This is not fascism. He believed that the people of the United States needed to identify as Americans, and not as individual races, or parties, or groups who are opposed to each other.

Then how did Charlie Kirk become a racist fascist?