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Right-wingers of the world unite to echo Charlie Kirk’s dark message
Eulogies for the assassinated American show what drives the global far right: xenophobia and anti-Islamic ideology. Diverse societies should be worried.
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Around the world, conservative leaders of various stripes struck similar notes, using the moment to skewer their ideological opponents.
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If it was ever in doubt that the slain American conservative activist Charlie Kirk is now one of, if not the most, powerful galvanising symbols for President Donald Trump’s fractious Republican Party, last weekend’s memorial service put paid to it.
Mr Trump himself said the moment marked a “revival” for the conservative movement.
