My Final Conversation with Charlie Kirk

"When I last saw my friend Charlie Kirk a couple of weeks ago, we were recounting how the Constitutional Convention had ended in 1787. Benjamin Franklin was walking out of the hall when a woman, Elizabeth Powell, the wife of the Mayor of Philadelphia, asked him, “Well, Doctor, what do we have? A republic or a monarchy?” Franklin turned to her and said, “A republic, if you can keep it.” If you can keep it.

Charlie and I thought about every single one of those words. This is a turning point—if we can keep it. This is a turning point—if we wake up every single day and praise our Lord and Savior. This is a turning point—if we remember that in Charlie Kirk’s America, it is not left versus right. It is right versus wrong. Good versus evil. And we must stand up to that evil.

It is the evil that celebrates assassination. It is the evil that glorifies wickedness. It is the evil that props up forces that seek to divide us. That is the evil we must stand against.

The internet is powerful, but at times—and in this time especially, in the wake of Charlie’s murder—it feels like some corners of the internet are acting like Radio Rwanda: trying to divide us, spreading lies, tearing apart our national fabric. We must not let them win.

And by the size of this crowd tonight—we will win."