FULL TEXT - Tom's Monologue on the Murder of Charlie Kirk

As prepared for delivery on ‘America Right Now’ on Newsmax, September 13, 2025

“Will this be the turning point? It has been a very difficult week in America. One, many of us will remember for the rest of our lives.

It started with the gut-wrenching video of a young woman collapsing on the floor of a train, dying in horror, as a career criminal allowed to roam free by a liberal judge, ripped her life from her. No one on the train did anything to help her.

That was punctuated by the political assassination of the most powerful young conservative voice in American history.

It is a moment to be outraged. Outraged at the media's intentional ignoring the Charlotte story because it didn’t fit their agenda. Outraged by the Mayor's sympathy, more for the criminal than the victim. Outraged over more anti-conservative, anti-Christian violence.

The sad truth is that scenes like these are not that uncommon in this country today.

At these moments, we so often ask “why?” Why does such senseless violence exist in our society? There are many answers to that question.

A failed welfare state has trapped urban black men, in particular, on a modern plantation served by failed public schools.

Liberals who pushed subsidized public housing for decades have promoted the creation and expansion of an American underclass for the sake of their own political power.

Elected officials permitting the mentally ill and hardened criminals to walk our streets to commit mayhem over and over again.

The Left's stranglehold over higher education and digital information platforms.

The intentional degrading of our national identity and core values that define American freedom.

There are social reasons as well, of course. Democrats' relentless push to legalize drugs, normalize unnatural lifestyles, and diminish marriage and family while promoting the emptiness of promiscuity and the nihilism a life without God or Biblical truth.

To be sure, there are plenty of Conservatives who ignored this decay for decades.

What this all boils down to is that we have stripped away what makes life worth living for too many of our fellow citizens. A society increasingly controlled by forces that have more in common with Karl Marx than Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln, has grown rudderless, angry and depressed.

It's because too often today, we don't put people first. We put systems, political gain and power and profit over lives, souls and human advancement.

What we are witnessing is no accident. It is the result of extreme capitalism – of which Big Tech and the higher education complex are a part - combined with extreme government intervention that is degrading human dignity. 

Extreme expressions of power corrupt souls and destroy lives.

The corrosion isn't just the young black men who believe they have nothing to live for -- or the trans kid who lives in his own reality. It is the breakdown of basic civility among people.
Take for instance the unhinged woman at the Phillies game last week.

CS Lewis saw this coming as communism and real fascism advanced in the 1940s - He wrote in the "Screwtape Letters":

"Make sure to keep the patient in a constant state of angst, frustration, and general disdain towards the rest of the human race to avoid any kind of charity or inner peace from further developing."

We are the patient.

Our Founders, who created a Constitution for a moral and religious people – who believed in the principle that you should love your neighbor as yourself – understood that we are covenanted not with business, political parties and government systems first – but to God and His people.

Saint John Paull II said, "When the sense of God is lost-- the sense of man is also threatened and poisoned. ... man thinks he may do as he will with his life and the lives of others. History attests that without God, violence and oppression soon arise."
 
We are not treating our nation like it is a nation of people any longer, but a nation of faceless, nameless, soulless machines.

We were indeed creating a more perfect union. Then came the Left’s march through the institutions, the explosion of welfare and federal power, the so-called sexual revolution and mass abortion of humans and castrating children as human rights.

What has followed is the slow hollowing out of the soul of our society. We have diminished the human experience and its indelible connection to both Biblical truth and the character of the nation. Consider that just last week, Democrat Senator from Virginia Tim Kane compared the founding principle of our nation, that our rights come from God, not men, to the Islamic theocracy of Iran.

We've made ourselves so shallow as people that it now will be very easy to be replaced by artificial people. You think things are going to get better with AI?

Columnist Matthew Continetti wrote for the Free Press this week - "Anarchy has been loosed on the American left. ...Every year brings forth downwardly mobile graduates with debts, no prospects, a sense of entitlement and mounds of resentment. Combine radical individualism with a culture without restraints and you have the equivalent of a Molotov cocktail."

Look at what social media did to the nation. Look at the harm caused by Big Tech through those platforms to young people and national discourse. Now replace tens of millions of jobs with androids and server farms. See what happens to the human experience then.

When unbridled technology and government power overtake the place of the divine, and therefore the dignity of the human person, the very structure of our society is undermined including the rule of law and basic morality. We become numb to violence, death and the impact of our own actions on others.

Charlie Kirk understood these things.

Despite often the outright abuse of his young audiences, he had the courage to create a new movement around the values that have made this nation the envy of the world. His commitment to Christ, Biblical truth, the Constitution and civil discourse made him a generational figure who impacted millions.

And he was killed for it.

He knew this is not happening by accident but by design.

Unless we are all willing to stand against it in our own ways big and small at the ballot box, in our schools and in our neighborhoods, we will truly cease to see ourselves as neighbors and part of an American family and let the victims bleed out on the floor.

A bunch of white liberals will stage another anti Trump protest and things will go on sliding into the abyss.

Yes, we spend so much time asking “why?” But Charlie Kirk asked “what?”

What is God trying to teach us? What can we do to help people live better lives? What can we learn from our pain and this moment in our history?

What can we do to save more Iryna Zarutskas and Charlie Kirks and the faceless, nameless person who will undoubtedly meet their end on the streets of Chicago this weekend. That person needs to be saved too.

What can we do without sinking to the level of those who oppose the American way of life?

That's what Charlie Kirk was all about. That's the vision that he had for the America he hoped his children would inherit.

So, embrace the outrage and the emotion. If you're shocked and moved that means that you should also be willing to be part of restoring America in your home, on your street, in your school, and in your community.

Will this be a turning point moment?

I'm not sure. I'm afraid there will be an unknown, continued human cost before we turn a corner.

But when we do - and we will - we will need to do the hard work that Lincoln once envisioned - and Charlie Kirk once hoped - that we again be one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”