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Are you joking??? The mainstream media tried turning him into a martyr, sure, but to what end? Abject failure. Like, c'mon, name one person who has taken his ideas more seriously since his neck just did that. I'll wait.
His lifetime dedication to making the world a worse place was put to an abrupt end, and his entire legacy of cruelty has become nothing more than a joke, with his name now a mere punchline.
Charlie Kirk became a far more accepted figure after his death, killing him made the rightwing movement stronger, that really isn't up for debate the effect is so obvious.