MAGA’s first martyr

After Charlie Kirk’s death, alongside portrayals of him as a defender of free speech, there was the explicitly religious veneration and storytelling. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Charlie Kirk has been turned into the first martyr of the MAGA faith. And this matters because it is martyr veneration that helped both Christianity and Islam transform from small local movements centered on charismatic preachers into global religions. In launching its own martyrs, MAGA may be moving from a movement focused on one beguiling leader in the person of Donald Trump to a broader faith that could o