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Charlie Kirk’s funeral is now set for Sunday in Arizona, and tens of thousands of people are expected to be there to pay their final respects to the conservative activist. For everyone who does make it inside State Farm Stadium in Glendale, dozens more will be outside wishing they had been there. All of them, however, are wondering what comes next for the Turning Point movement that Kirk led, and, more importantly, will those people keep Charlie Kirk’s message and memory alive. Mary Rooke is a Catholic mother of four and a Daily Caller commentator. She appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to summarize her most recent column, entitled “Charlie Kirk’s Death Sparks New Calls For National Revival”.
Rooke explained to host Larry Mendte how she arrived at the message she hopes the column conveys: “You go to those stages of grief, like everyone else, but then I woke up. Watching Erika Kirk be so strong in her first address to the nation, it let a fire in me, and I thought… let’s make actionable changes to our society and wake people up. I think the overarching theme here, and especially with Charlie Kirk’s message is- and he said this several times- God, family, country, and so we need to be moving forward in those action plans in order to keep Charlie’s memory alive in our nation.”
Still, while Rooke hopes Kirk’s message survives in others, she admits it’s tough trying to replicate the original: “I don’t think that he’s replaceable. That’s the sad reality of it. However, I do think that, in his death, there’s far more good in the world, with all these people rising up, and it’s going to take everyone to fill his shoes.”
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