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Charlie Kirk’s Biggest Legacy Will Be Inspiring Young People To Get Married

Charlie understood that the ideas a culture rewards eventually decide how people date, whom they marry, and how they raise their children.

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Charlie Kirk posted thousands of times over more than a decade. Making a book out of those posts meant reading back through the whole record and sorting it into the subjects he kept returning to, and one of the largest was family.

That did not surprise me. Donald Trump Jr. introduced us when Charlie was 19, and for the decade we spent in each other’s lives, what he was really looking for was love. What surprised me was how much of that search he put in public, and how little of that ever made the news.

People picture him on a campus lawn arguing with a line of students, because that is the footage that traveled. The Charlie I knew was from earlier. The rooms he worked then were full of donors he was trying to convince, and full of young people with wide eyes who had finally found somewhere it was acceptable to be conservative out loud. My own children were once in those rooms.

He wrote about fathers standing up for their daughters. He wrote about parents being treated as an obstacle by their own schools. On his anniversary, he wrote that marrying Erika was, second to following Jesus, the best decision he had ever made, and he said it plainly where anyone could read it.

Charlie understood that the ideas a culture rewards eventually decide how people date, whom they marry, and how they raise their children. He also understood which direction........

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