Hey, I'm Tucker Carlson.

Last week, within just really minutes after Charlie Kirk was shot at that event in Utah,

a kind of proxy war broke out over his memory, who gets to own it, who gets to use it.

While the rest of us were still reeling in shock trying to figure out what happened,

a ton of people appeared online, not just in this country, to tell you exactly

what happened, exactly what it meant, and exactly what we should do next. And you can see why.

With this level of emotion, rage, and grief in the air, it's pretty wise to leverage that much

energy. It's almost like nuclear power. It can be used

for good or bad. And a lot of people wanted to use it. There's no question about that. So they

begin telling you, Charlie died for this. He lived for this and he died for that. So the crazier

reaches of the left, it was Charlie was a Nazi, and the lesson is Nazis get killed. It

makes sense. He was a bad guy who got what he deserved, and a lot of them said that out loud.

Certain parts of the right immediately told you that actually this was about something completely

different. You know, Charlie died for Israel. Many began to say the prime minister of Israel

said that, and so did a lot of other people.

Charlie was a defender of Israel, which he was, by the way, and therefore he died for that cause.

But none of these explanations, all self-serving, are really satisfactory.

They don't capture who Charlie Kirk was, and on some basic level, they're dishonest.

Charlie was not a Nazi. He was not killed because he was a

Nazi. Yes, he was a defender of Israel. He didn't die for Israel, however. Why did he die? What was his

life about? What was the sin, the core sin that Charlie Kirk committed against somebody, power,

that got him killed in the end. And the answer

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