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13. Very apt use of the phrase "Lost Cause" ---

Wed Sep 17, 2025, 01:42 PM

Sep 2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy

They're trying to whitewash the truth about Kirk and replace it with a heroic myth, in the same way they tried to "redeem" the Confederacy the very same way.

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Vanity Fair: Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause [View all] AStern Sep 2025 OP

Not from me JustAnotherGen Sep 2025 #1

Excuse me. OldBaldy1701E Sep 2025 #2

All I did was read the headline BWdem4life Sep 2025 #10

If all you read was the headline . . . markpkessinger Sep 2025 #16

Far from redeemed EYESORE 9001 Sep 2025 #5

... Solly Mack Sep 2025 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author Marcuse Sep 2025 #7

"...that he was pro-life, that he believed in public executions..." Wednesdays Sep 2025 #8

Anyone who says drmeow Sep 2025 #9

Gag me with a spoon. Martin68 Sep 2025 #12

Very apt use of the phrase "Lost Cause" --- eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 #13

Excellent piece. I hadn't seen so much of TNC's writing around recently muriel_volestrangler Sep 2025 #18