‘The devil is not gonna win’: how Charlie Kirk became a Christian nationalist martyr

The rightwing pundit's meteoric career was in some ways a microcosm of the rise of Trump-era Christian nationalism

Christian nationalists in the US are positioning Charlie Kirk as a martyr for their movement, one that has grown in popularity and whose rise was intertwined with Kirk's own political ascent.

After Kirk's killing, his widow, Erika Kirk, wrote on social media that the world is evil", but God so good." The sound of this widow weeping [echoes] throughout this world like a battle cry," she said. They have no idea what they just ignited within this wife."