Letter to the Editor, (September 2025)

Charlie Kirk was a husband, a father, and a believer in God. He was a man who stood for faith, family, and order. He lived with conviction, believing he was serving something higher than himself. His assassination shook us not simply because of the loss of one man, but because it marked a deeper fracture—a society losing its ability to speak, to reason, to listen. When dialogue dies, division rushes in. And even those who seek purpose can become casualties of rage.

Look at the reaction from the Left. Many celebrated his death. That’s not disagreement, it’s dehumanization. It reveals a disturbing psychosis, where some believe that thinking differently warrants death. That’s projection in its rawest form: people hating in others what they cannot face in themselves.

On the Right, the dominant energy is clarity and boundaries, faith in God, the nuclear family, a sense of order. Our ideals reflect natural law, not the chaos of identity-hopping and rage that has overtaken the Left.

But here is where compassion must enter. The Left’s rage doesn’t come from nowhere. It’s the scream of wounded psyches. People lost in identity politics because they don’t know who they are. Trans ideology, perpetual victimhood, labeling anyone they disagree with a “Nazi”. These are symptoms of souls terrified of their own emptiness. Which is understandable if one believes the world came from nothing and will end in nothing.

So where is the truth? The Left today is unmoored, chaotic, and divorced from reality. The Right is more grounded, but not without its own flaws. Too often, we respond with judgment—“you’re insane,” “you’re evil”—and that only feeds the very psychosis Charlie was trying to confront.

We must speak truth with clarity and compassion. We must be both the stern father and the healer. Because even those who rage are still human—and not beyond redemption.

The tragedy of Charlie Kirk’s assassination proves his words to be true. “When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence.” If we want to save our culture, we must hold the line of truth without becoming poisoned by the same rage Charlie, and now we, seek to expose. We must learn to speak again. Not just with those who agree with us, but especially to those who don’t.

Respectfully,
Dan Schonhardt
Chair, Wright County Republican Party