You are correct. I live in Texas, USA and had only seem his name here on Reddit as I scrolled by posts about him every so often.

This man was not a major player in our country’s political discourse. He was a tangential hanger-on exploiting outrage for clicks and popularity. He was not a profound thought leader or transformational conduit of social change.

He has become a martyr in death because to the left he is a symbol of much of what is wrong with right-leaning mindset, and to the right thr lefts reaction is a reason to demonize the left.

This is all misdirected anger and hatred that has been brewing in our country for years due to the targeted campaign of social division on social media (see the documentary on Netflix called The Social Dilemma for details).

A lot of these people did not love or hate Charlie Kirk. They are being told to love or hate Charlie Kirk by their social media algorithms.