Donald J. Trump

Some of the very people who call you a hater for using the wrong pronoun were filled with glee at the killing of a father with two beautiful young children.

And the same commentators who this week are screaming fascism over a canceled late-night TV show where

The anchor had no talent and no ratings.

Last week, we're implying that Charlie Kirk deserved what happened to him.

No side in American politics has a monopoly on disturbed or misguided people.

But there's one part of our political community which believes they have a monopoly on truth, goodness, and virtue, and concludes they have also a monopoly on power, thought, and speech.

Well, that's not happening anymore.

We've turned that corner very quickly.

Tragically, atrocities of this kind and the kind that we saw in Utah, of all places, are the eventual consequence of that kind of thinking.

If speech is violence, then some are bound to conclude that violence is justified to stop speech.

And we're not going to let that be justified.

The tradition of reason and open debate that Charlie practiced is not a pillar of our democracy.

In many ways, it's the basis of our entire society.

It's the right and inheritance of every free American, the greatest legacy of the Enlightenment, and among the most treasured achievements of civilization.

We will defend it at all costs, and we will carry forward the torch of liberty that Charlie Kirk held so proud and so high.

He was so proud, and he did hold that torch high.

We will never, ever let it fail.

We will never let it fail.

But we're going to raise it higher than ever before.

It's going to be raised.