Refuse Dystopia

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They Just Created A Million Charlie Kirks

Kirkification as Narrative Rebellion

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Charles McBryde
Sep 19, 2026
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When I met Charlie Kirk in 2019 at a birthday party inside the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C., I did not imagine that he’d be dead from an assassin’s bullet within the decade.

At the time, he was brimming with confidence, and flush with billionaire cash, staring down what looked to be a permanent consolidation of political power in the wake of a presum…

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