THE BATTLE CRY OF ERIKA KIRK, KAT ROSENFELD

The first time I saw a photo of Erika Kirk it was on the site formerly known as Twitter: a portrait of a woman with pale blond hair and eyes the color of ice, glaring straight into the camera like she’s daring it, and you, to come even one step closer. The post didn’t identify the woman in the image, but it didn’t need to. Even if she hadn’t been standing at a podium emblazoned with a sign that read, “May Charlie be received into the merciful arms of Jesus,” the caption would have left no doubt as to who I was looking at.



It read, “She’s as hateful as her husband.”

That post has since been deleted—although not before it racked up over 140,000 likes and more than 12,000 retweets—but it’s representative of something bigger than itself: a progressive animus toward all things Charlie Kirk-related, so powerful that no one, not even a grieving widow addressing the public less than 48 hours after her husband’s death, will be spared its caustic attention. MORE AT The Battle Cry of Erika Kirk - by Kat Rosenfield