Conservative speakers promise to continue after the assassination of Charlie Kirk

After the assassination of the conservative commentator Charlie Kirk sent shock waves in the political landscape this week, Fox News Digital spoke to several high -level confessers on the future of the movement and the influence of Kirk’s inheritance and style.

“The Conservatives will not be silenced,” Heather Mac Donald, Thomas W. Smith at the Manhattan Institute and editor -in -chief of City Journal, told Fox News, adding that Kirk would not have been silenced “so that the Conservatives should” imitate his courage “.

The columnist and commentator Bethany Mandel told Fox News Digital that Kirk’s assassination was “absolutely an effort to try to silence the conservatives” and that “we must resist the temptation to allow it”.

“We must continue to speak and double not only Charlie’s message, but also his methodology,” said Mandel.

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Charlie Kirk is seen in the FISERV forum of the third night of the National Republican Convention. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

Kirk was murdered on Wednesday when he was addressed to thousands of students at the University of Utah Valley when a shooter positioned on a neighboring roof fired a single blow, hitting Kirk on the neck.

Kirk was transported urgently to the regional hospital in Timpanogos, where he was declared dead, which caused the support of conservatives around the world, including President Donald Trump, who described the murder for a “dark moment for America”.

Authorities announced on Friday that they have arrested Tyler Robinson, a 22 -year -old Utah resident.

“Charlie Kirk was a good man,” said John Ashbrook, co-host of the conservative podcast “Ruthless”, told Fox News Digital. “And his inheritance will lose because none of us will never forget his leadership or the voice he has assured to millions of ordinary people across this country.”

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Conservative activist Charlie Kirk debates with students when he stops the American return tour in CSUN in Northridge, California, March 6, 2025. (Images Benjamin Hanson / Middle East / AFP via Getty Images)

Mac Donald told Fox News Digital that he was “difficult to imagine” Kirk had been killed for “any other reason than to break the grip of anti-Western ideology on university campuses and beyond”.

“It was sadly appropriate that he was killed on a university campus, and not even known for his inclinations to the left, because the colleges are the bed of seed of the suppression of modern speech and the false equations that the discourse against political discourse = the speech of hatred and the speech of hatred can be stifled – apparently by all the necessary means,” said Mac Donald.

“The killer apparently agreed with these alleged censorships. Egocentrism and historical and moral ignorance of bicked American students have flowered in something more pernicious, as has already shown the beatification of Luigi Mangione.”

In the future, in terms of security during events for the eminent conservative speakers, Mandel called the campuses and the cities which “claim to worry about the future of America and the civil speech” to “ensure adequate security”.

“We must not have to pay tax in the form of security in order to share our political opinions safely,” Mandel told Fox News Digital.

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Investigators are looking for an area registered in Orem, Utah, Thursday, September 11, 2025. The research would be linked to the evidence hunting in the assassination of Charlie Kirk yesterday during a rally in UVU. (Derek trembled for Fox News Digital)

The conservatives have rallied in Kirk’s style to speak publicly and exchange ideas with those who do not agree, including the eminent influencer Ben Shapiro, who Written on x that “we will never stop debating and discussing”.

“We will never stop defending what America is and what it should be,” said Shapiro, adding that he intended to continue speaking in colleges across the country despite the inherent dangers.

Mac Donald told Fox News Digital: “It’s a cliché and selfish to say: they fear us because we win, but probably, there is less perceived need to erase someone who loses a cause anyway. Kirk was feared because he won.”