Trump couldn’t win over Charlie Kirk’s mourners

President Donald Trump was the last talker astatine Charlie Kirk's memorial service, capping disconnected six hours of an intensely evangelical, borderline nationalist Christian revival. He entered with the biggest pyrotechnics of the time portion Lee Greenwood himself serenaded him unrecorded with "God Bless the USA." And the infinitesimal helium began to speak, I noticed thing odd: radical were already streaming toward the exits.

It was curious, for up until that point, the assemblage of 70,000, packed to the gills of the State Farm Stadium successful Arizona, had been wholly enraptured. Trump had followed pastors who'd spoken astir Kirk's faith, influencers who'd exhorted the …

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