Erika Kirktook the stage at Dream City Church in Phoenix on Friday afternoon and opened her remarks with a line about what the last seven months had taught her.
“I have seen the worst of humanity, but I’ve also seen the best of it,” she told the crowd at Turning Point USA’s “Build the Red Wall” rally. Kirk, who took over Turning Point USA after her husband Charlie was assassinated at Utah Valley University last September, said every day carries a choice. You can dwell on what is broken, or you can recognize your freedoms and fight to protect them.
It was a setup about grace. What followed, across the next six minutes, was something else.
The world according to Erika Kirk
Thirty seconds after the line about the best of humanity, Kirk pivoted to a tour of places where humanity, in her telling, had failed…