Andrew Kolvet spoke on behalf of Charlie Kirk this week at RCP’s third annual Samizdat Prize Gala. You can read more about the prize and Kirk’s contributions to free speech here: “Charlie Kirk Embodies the Samizdat Prize” “Thank you for allowing me to be here and accept this award on behalf of Charlie,” Kolvet said. “He would just grind, grind, grind, grind, grind. I tell people he was a missionary to the culture. He went places that didn’t want him but needed him the most. The only way to do that was to lift up free speech again and again and again.” “When he would get shouted down, when he would get water bottles thrown at him, when tables would get flipped over – all of these things happened multiple times – he just kept showing up. He was a true believer in the promise of this country,” he said. “There’s no replacing Charlie,” Kolvet said. “He really did have a vision of building a machine and building a movement that would stand the test of time – an institution that we could look to.” “As conservatives, we have this awesome challenge right now. We want to conserve the good, the true, the beautiful. Our instinct – our hard wiring – is to preserve our institutions. Yet we look at our institutions and they’re failing us, they’re betraying us. The honest answer is I don’t exactly know how we do this, but I can tell you he’s given us the blueprint.”
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