INGERSOLL: Meet The Based Whos Of America’s Whoville

Greetings, Dear Reader,

Welcome back to State of the Day, where I strip the euphemism off the day’s news and give it to you straight, no ice, no mixer.

Well, Charlie Kirk’s memorial happened in Arizona yesterday, and … wow …

THE BASED WHOS OF WHOVILLE

We all know the story.

The Grinch, in his infinite hatred, steals Christmas from the Whos of Whoville. Having taken all their gifts, food, even their decorations, the Grinch looks down on Whoville on Christmas Morning hoping to witness misery, suffering, and lamentation, but instead …

Singing. They sing. They rejoice. They’re happy.

Charlie Kirk’s memorial service filled the Arizona Cardinals football stadium with more than 70,000 people, with another 20,000 in overflow venues. The event brought with it a tidal wave of positivity. By TPUSA’s count, there were more than 100 million streams online, and that’s just on platforms they could track.

The messages flowing out of the service could be summarized no better than by Charlie Kirk himself in a tweet several years ago, “God. Family. Country. In that order.”

Marco Rubio summarized the story of Christ’s resurrection in less than 90 seconds. The crowd was utterly entranced. Erika Kirk encouraged men to “accept Charlie’s challenge.”

“Be strong and courageous for your families. Love your wives and lead them. Love your children and protect them. Be the spiritual head of your home … be a leader worth following.”

JD Vance dazzled the crowd.

“Charlie suffered a terrible fate … but I think, it’s not the worst fate. It is better to face a gunman than to live your life afraid to speak the truth. It is better to be persecuted for your faith than to deny the Kingship of Christ. It is better to die a young man in this world than to sell your soul for an easy life with no purpose, no risk, no love, and no truth.”

There were many speakers, including Trump, but it was the widow at the center of it all who grabbed the souls of every witness.

“Up on that cross, Christ said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ That man, that young man, I forgive him.”

The only thing louder than Kirk’s amplified voice was the rapt silence of the 100,000 people in attendance. She actually forgave the young man who stole her husband, the father of her children.

On this spectacle of courageous positivity, the Grinches of the world looked down … and their hearts turned to ash.

“This Charlie Kirk ‘memorial’ is indistinguishable from a Nazi rally,” was the takeaway of famed liberal streamer Destiny.

Mehdi Hasan, perhaps the worst amalgamation of elite media, absurd leftism, and terrorist sympathy, spent the entire day calling Kirk a bigot. Others on the left followed suit. Kirk hated women, hated black people, hated transgender people.

And so on. All the greatest hits. I will not bother to rebut these falsehoods. You can watch his videos and decide for yourself.

The smart lefties just stayed silent. Ever one to misread the room, Hillary Clinton encouraged her followers to pray over the corpse of Jimmy Kimmel’s career. As if a multi-millionaire unfunny comedian should occupy the intellectual energy of the masses. As if Kimmel losing his job was anything like Kirk losing his life.

Like Hillary in 2016, it’s not a very compelling message.

Perhaps the most perfectly absurd avatar of deranged liberalism reacting to Kirk’s memorial was the Muslim trans guy standing outside in a protest of “less than 10 people.” 

“Erica” Austin, previously Eric Austin, who now goes by “Sumayyah Dawud,” stood outside the venue waving a “Free Palestine” flag. To be clear, this is a white transgender dude LARPing as a repressed Muslim woman sympathizing with foreign terrorists who would almost certainly behead him in an instant.

I can’t think of a more fitting example for the modern left’s reaction to positivity, patriotism, family and faith.

Unlike the Seuss story, witnessing conservatives rejoice despite what was stolen from them did not make the hearts of avowed leftists grow. They didn’t even warm over. They either turned to stone or to ash.

So this is where the metaphor stops working.

They were not like the storied Grinch. But we too are not exactly like the storied Whos. We might be, if the Whos were actually based. If they intended to finish singing, then head up the mountain to solve the perennial Grinch problem. 

Stephen Miller framed it perfectly.

“We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil. They can’t imagine what they have awakened. We stand for what is good and virtuous and noble. And to those trying to incite violence and foment hatred against us? What do you have?

You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness and jealousy, you are hatred, you are envy. You can build nothing, you can produce nothing, you can create nothing. We are the ones who build. We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity.

You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk?

You have made him immortal!”

WHAT I’M READING

Praise Scott Jennings!

Scott Jennings Responds To Jasmine Crockett’s Anti-Charlie Kirk Rant

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Let’s get more of these groups to “vanish,” eh?

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Van Jones reveals Charlie’s last message to him.

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