Ron DeSantis thinks Charlie Kirk has greater reach since his death

The assassination of Charlie Kirk continues to resonate among conservatives. And Gov. Ron DeSantis believes Kirk’s tragic death has given his ideas more exposure than they got even during his momentous life.

“He’s honestly a lot more popular now because people are watching his clips since this happened,” DeSantis said at the University of Florida.

“I think it’s because people are just horrified at the idea that, you know, you’re out there, you’re answering questions, you’re having good faith debate, and someone’s response to that is not even to just shout you down, not even to just create a melee … (but) to actually assassinate you. That was a dark day for this country.”

DeSantis said Kirk, who was killed while speaking at a Utah university this month, was “in Florida for a time” because people here were “generous enough to support his initiatives.”

The Governor noted that before his assassination, Kirk “really relished going to these college campuses and trying to bring ideas to those campuses that may not necessarily get a fair hearing usually.”

“And that’s certainly true in many parts of the country. And so he was doing that and he did it with a lot of vigor and a lot of passion. He really believed in what he was doing,” DeSantis said. “He would take questions from all of the hostile students and then he would answer, and they’d go back and forth.”

Kirk’s commitment to what DeSantis called “robust debate” contrasted to the “superficial understanding” and parroted “talking points” of campus leftists repeating whatever was “cool to say amongst a little clique.”

“The minute they had their assumptions challenged, they melted,” DeSantis recounted.

As he has previously, DeSantis promised consequences for the “deplorable” act of celebrating Kirk’s death for those in “normal segments” of society whose livelihood depends on public funds.

“To have teachers revel in this across the country, to have nurses revel in this, to have people … in major arteries of our society expressing glee … was really a gut punch,” DeSantis said.

“Do I want a teacher in the classroom whose response to that is to glorify it and celebrate it? No, I don’t want that person teaching our kids. And we have a right to make that clear.”

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