Opinion: Divide and Conquer – The Left’s Desperate Strategy After Charlie Kirk’s Death

By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor

How do you defeat an enemy?

If you have numbers, you can overwhelm your enemy with numbers.

If you have power, you can overwhelm your enemy with power.

In the modern world, you might overwhelm your enemy with technology, or with money, or with pop culture influence.

But what if you don’t have any of those things?

What if your enemy, to your surprise, suddenly has more power than you – more money, more numbers, more influence, more popularity? What if your enemy has managed to win the technology battle so that his message is more powerful than yours?

Then there is only one way left: try to divide your enemy; try to make your enemy fight amongst themselves. Try to split up your enemy’s forces to make him less effective, or even to cause him to collapse in friendly fire.

Students of military history will recall times when a smaller force defeated a larger force, through trickery: using the geography of a battle plain, perhaps, to get the enemy to split up and accidentally start shooting at each other, both portions of a divided enemy mistakenly thinking that they were shooting at their opponent.

In the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we are seeing this happen in real time.

The un-American Left has been quivering in the corner for over nine months now. They did not expect to lose in 2024, and they have been shocked at how resilient and effective Republican governance has been, thus far, in President Trump’s second term. Current polling puts the whole modern Democratic Party somewhere between moldy bread and a rusty razor in popularity with the American voter.

The late Charlie Kirk was one of a kind. A unifier, a champion of the American system, an evangelist for Western Civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition. He is irreplaceable, and everyone truly on the American Right knows this.

The Right is in mourning right now, as are all who have been touched by Charlie Kirk and his message over the years.

Some in the Left see this moment as an opportunity to sow discord… by planting seeds of disagreement, by outright lying, by trying to drive wedges between various elements of this new American majority.

We see it in Facebook and X posts, in the comments of late night talk show hosts and pundits, claiming that the assassin was himself a member of the conservative movement, or that the assassination was caused by a growing rift on the right concerning our Israel policy, or even – outrageously – that the assassination was funded and planned by our ally Israel.

These rumors, some coming from once notable, but now discredited, fringe elements of the Right, are particularly underhanded, because they are rooted in lies. They are not misunderstandings or wrong guesses; they are knowingly wrong statements, intended to mislead and divide.

The American Right is not just a Protestant thing, a Catholic thing, a Jewish thing. It is united in its support of the Judeo-Christian family of denominations and beliefs.

The American Right is not split on our support for Israel. America has few true allies in the world, and Israel is among those few. We know this, whether we personally happen to be Catholic or Protestant or a Jewish or atheist ourselves. Real Americans recognize that the Israeli government, Israeli society, Israeli way of life, is infinitely more similar to these United States than is any other country in North Africa and the Mideast.

But the Left looks at us in terror, because they see the winning side from a distance, and they know that their grip on power is shrinking by the day.

So they are trying to throw monkey wrenches in the gearbox of the Right, to take issues upon which we agree, and convince us that we don’t. They spread knowingly false rumors and accusations, and hope that some of them take root.

This effort to sow division is a desperate ploy, and because of the deceit involved, it is an especially reprehensible approach.

We must see it for what it is, and we must call out those who spread such lies.

Pundits, news, anchors, writers and politicians do make mistakes. They can get things wrong without malice.

But that’s not what’s happening here.

There’s nothing but malice in the decision to make up these claims out of whole cloth.

These claims, spread by TV personalities, NGO leaders, and keyboard warriors, are so blatantly untrue that they are inexcusable. They are not mistakes; they are malevolent lies.

And the fact that the Left is descending to such methods should tell us all we need to know about both their character and their desperation.

Copyright 2025 John F. Di Leo