17 days after Charlie’s death, it’s clear: We are now on the other side of the Rubicon

The assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, whose only crime was to host debates in the public square and declare the gospel of Jesus Christ, has made something abundantly clear: We have crossed the Rubicon.

But it was the left’s response to his tragic death that revealed this reality perhaps even more than the shooting itself. Almost immediately, radicals took to social media to post videos celebrating Charlie’s murder, claiming he deserved to die and even mocking his wife, Erika, and their two children. Across the country, they defiled memorials, crashed prayerful vigils where his admirers gathered in grief, and even called for more violence against conservative figures.

This wasn’t a fringe group, either. It was a minority, says Auron MacIntyre, but “a very large minority.”

But now that it’s clear the right will not follow the left’s suit and respond in violence, even the liberals who initially issued “half-hearted rebukes” are beginning to “[rip] the mask off,” caveating their original statements with hypocritical comments like, “Charlie Kirk was evil. He was a fascist. He was a racist. … Wasn’t he kind of asking for it?”

Auron warns: For too long conservatives have mistakenly believed that “history is over” and that modern politics is just a “debate club,” but we can no longer deny the reality facing us: A nation this divided cannot endure.

“In order to have the type of politics where you get to debate over what you disagree with instead of fight over what you disagree with, you need to share a large amount of culture, belief, religion, morality, tradition, [and] understanding,” says Auron.

But “because we do not share them, we cannot do that mode of politics.”

“What we’re trying to do right now is operate one mode of politics on top of a foundation that is completely crumbled and can no longer support it. I’m not happy about that fact. I’m not cheering about that fact. I wish that foundation was still firm,” he says. “I wish we shared a common Anglo-Protestant understanding. I wish that we could speak to each other with all the implicit understanding that comes with a shared tradition, a shared morality, a shared way of looking at the world.”

But when one side believes that chopping off the genitals of a child is not only permissible but loving? Peaceable discourse is no longer a viable option. When the disparity between worldviews is this great, “We enter into a different kind of politics. … To quote a poorly ended television show, ‘When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die,”’ says Auron.

While he loathes this method of politics, “The sad news is that history doesn’t ask us what we want.” Once a republic starts to break down, as all republics eventually do, and people begin to spit on virtue and law and order, “You’re going to probably need to go outside of the rules in order to restore that type of government,” Auron explains.

“We’re going to need to make sure the left knows there’s a cost for what they’ve done.”

But Auron isn’t advocating for the anarchy and violence that’s become expected from the left. He’s calling for a “very, very, very, very, very serious response from the Trump administration.”

“The correct answer here,” he says, “is legitimate state force under the color of law. There’s nothing that Trump can’t do under the law that he needs to get done right now.”

“Thousands of people need to go to jail. They need to be bankrupted. It needs to be impossible for them to fund [terrorist groups] anymore. Companies like Discord need to pay a severe price for going out of their way to allow the organization of terrorist networks on their platform.”

“The Rubicon’s behind you whether you like it or not.” says Auron.

“Too many people are dead. Too many more will come if we take no action.”

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