Charlie Kirk was a divisive far-right podcaster. Why is he being rebranded as a national hero? | Saida Grundy | The Guardian

The valorization of Kirk by his far-right defenders is an insult to millions of the most marginalized Americans who lived every day in the crosshairs of his rhetoric. Kirk's memorialization by his supporters and apologists is but a new opportunity to announce an old message about whose country this is and whose it isn't.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/23/charlie-kirk-bigoted-far-right-podcaster 

 

Hero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTSksdsFaok

Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb calls Mueller an ‘American hero’ and ‘class act’ - The Washington Post

Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb said in a new podcast that he considers special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to be “an American hero” and “a class act” and does not share President Trump’s oft-stated view that the probe of Russian election interference is a politically motivated “witch hunt.”...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-white-house-lawyer-ty-cobb-calls-mueller-an-american-hero-and-class-act/2019/03/05/6e4447b6-3f3e-11e9-922c-64d6b7840b82_story.html

Trump Denies McCain 'Hero' Statement from White House, but Former Arizona Senator May Have Last Laugh - Newsweek

"You would expect more of an American president when you're talking about the passing of a true American hero," said Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Trump's legal team. .....
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-denies-mccain-hero-statement-white-house-former-arizona-senator-may-1091141

Violent alt-right members consider Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh a hero -- 23 years after the attack - Raw Story

By today's standards Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh would fit in well with the alt-right. Twenty-three years later, to the day, some even consider McVeigh to be a hero for killing 168 people, including 19 children.....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/violent-alt-right-members-consider-oklahoma-city-bomber-timothy-mcveigh-hero-23-years-attack/

Roy Moore, Facing Pressure To End His Campaign, Hailed As "Hero Of The Day" By Religious Activists -- BuzzFeed News

But even as he was defended at home, the White House said the Alabama Senate candidate should step aside if the allegations against him are true. ....
https://www.buzzfeed.com/blakemontgomery/roy-moore-religious-supporters?utm_term=.qge6xlay0e#.cl4627xKoy

The 'diversity visa' program Trump is attacking also produced a Muslim immigrant hero

After near-silence on a domestic terror attack in Charlottesville that killed one and a mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed dozens and injured hundreds, Donald Trump finally found an incident of terrorism he was willing to get shouty and red-faced about. He made no call for the perpetrator of the Charlottesville attack to be summarily put to death, as he has for the New York attacker. He offered up not a single damn bit of legal change that would prevent future mass murderers from, next time, killing even more Americans, but he insisted that the New York attacker could be pinned on a specific immigration program.....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/3/1712027/-The-diversity-visa-program-Trump-is-attacking-also-produced-a-Muslim-immigrant-hero