When you quit thinking for yourself you rely on your alt-brains to tell you what to think. It need not make sense.

not that propaganda requires much skill. just be relentlessly arrogant, argumentative, grandiose, never concede a point, and always insist you won, especially when you obviously lost.

moreover, the right-wing flock quickly moves to serve the interests of their leaders, so whatever charlie kirk may have been in life, the circumstances of his death allowed right-wing leaders to exploit him for purposes of consolidation of power, control of outrage, targeting of democrats/liberals/trans people, etc. the leaders directed that there shall be outrage, and the obedient masses complied.

most of them had probably heard of charlie kirk, but even the ones who hadn't joined in the outrage because that's what the right-wing masses do. they live to be part of the collective outrage, they don't stop to think if it's correct or relevant or whatever, they just love being part of that collective anger.

Power.

is their favorite thing. It makes the white evangelicals feel happy and righteous about their hate for anyone who isn't one of "them".

Hating the same people they hate.

Simple as that.

31 year old Kirk bringing so many young people to God that he wishes he could have in 40 years. This priest also said that guns weren't the problem, thinking so is idiotic. Probably most Catholics have been programmed to believe that gay and trans people are big sinners, to put it mildly.

So here in my little town in central Pa. our priest basically gave a eulogy praising Kirk for doing God's work.

In their thinking - not the official doctrine of course.

https://www.newoxfordreview.org/documents/american-catholics-as-cultural-protestants/

"American Catholics as Cultural Protestants"

While liberal Catholics (wife is one) embody the lessons of the beatitudes, and they're leaving the church because the homilies
are more like screeds - and you have to check your brain at the door.

I am not going to listen to a “Christian leader” (of any denomination) spout hateful and ignorant nonsense from a pulpit especially when their comments contradict the faith they claim.

Charlie Kirk was - and remains - a cardboard cutout onto which they can project their hatred of others. He came ready-to-go with his smarmy, glad-handing persona and never ending line of prattle. Seems tailor-made for their specious religiosity.

enhance his own popularity (and income), explains much about his true character.

Remember, "Nationialist" is derived from the Latin "natus"="born" - it's about a "nation" not as a geographical location, but by descent - and Christian Nationalists imply that's European for "real Americans".