A memorial for Charlie Kirk at the headquarters of Turning Point USA.Eric Thayer/Getty Images

In suburban Los Angeles, the masked white supremacists of the Patriot Front march, chanting “Say his name! Charlie Kirk!” In London, right-wing extremists rally against immigration, and again the name on everyone’s lips is Charlie Kirk. Across Europe, in Germany, in Spain, in France, in Hungary, far-right parties eulogize him as a martyr.

For someone who has been so often held up in recent days as a “moderate, mainstream conservative,” Mr. Kirk is strangely popular with neo-Nazis, white nationalists, Christian theocrats and other elements of the far right. I can’t imagine they’d be so keen on Mitt Romney, even in death.........

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