Marco Rubio Fan Head Quarters!

, “we’re digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again.” In July 1936, as the Spanish Civil War began, supporters of the Republic sacked and burned churches and convents in cities that had not fallen to the Nationalist rising, and religious personnel were k*lled in numbers that ran well into the thousands. Rumors that priests were firing on crowds from church towers spread wildly, and the killing spread through the first weeks of the war.

The desecration was not a rumor and it was not an accident. In Barcelona, nineteen Salesian nuns were exhumed from a convent cemetery and displayed flanking the church doors and spilling into the street. In Toledo and other towns, disinterred corpses were put on display in churches and central squares, mummified remains shown as proof of what the revolution thought of the faith. Historians count 6,832 religious personnel k*lled in the war, including 283 nuns, most in the first weeks.

A movement that dug up the dead to humiliate the living in 1936 is not hiding its temper when it talks about digging up Kirk now. The dead cannot answer, so the living have to. Believe the words, remember the graves, and refuse to treat desecration as banter.