A day after last year’s elections Donald Trump called Charlie Kirk. The elected president had much to thank that 31 -year -old. Among others, which would have been key in the mobilization of the young vote for the Republican and that, directly, would have been in charge of the organization to take these young people to the polls in key hinge states such as Arizona.
The president’s gratitude call was confirmation of the key place he had achieved in the Maga Kirk universe, murdered on Wednesday in an attack of political violence that shakes and shocks the US. And he Esteba in the epicenter of that ultraconservative earthquake that dominates the entire Republican party and the American right today.
The escalation Until that place of Kirk had not been a matter of the last campaign. In fact, and despite his youth, he had been rising for many years. And his starting point was in 2012, when With only 18 years And two days after the end of the institute, this son of architect and counselor of Mental Health who had raised on the outskirts of Chicago founded Turning Point USA.
Esa Conservative organization He sought to preach the gospel among young people in the free market and the small government. It was establishing in thousands of institutes and universities and increasing its presence with a imposing and influential Infrastructure in the digital media universe: networks, podcasts, radio programs, YouTube …
“Cultural Wars”
Throughout that Kirk process it was evolving and redirecting the focus of your group to focus especially on called “Cultural Wars” And the hug of more ultraconservative causesincluding the crusade against what they call “Gender ideology”, the “woke” or the complaints of supposed repression and discrimination of conservatives in the academic or media world.
He also kept the Ultranza defense of the second amendment and the fierce opposition to any measure of weapons control. And in 2023, for example, in an act of turning point use Faith pronounced this phrase: “I think unfortunately deserves the cost of having some deaths for weapons every year so that we can have the second amendment To protect other rights that God has given us. It is a prudent agreement. It’s rational, “he said.
Kirk also hugged Trump and Trumpism from the first presidential campaign, when he managed influencer, activist, organizer, prayerRy, too, like provocative.
Evangelical Cristiano And representative of white Christian Nativism that has won so much and power in the US, also hugged Xenophobic conspiracy theories Like the Great replacement. SUS targets coincided with those of Trump: immigrants, the border, the Democratic Party, … “The hatred and resentment of the left -wing ruling class for the white Anglo -Saxon protest men is real,” he had denounced on one occasion.
In 2020 he had also helped spread the Lies about non -existent electoral fraud. And in the 2024 campaign He played the key role that earned Trump’s call after the victory “It is a machine, it is ready to unify and govern the country. It has more energy than ever. He has a mandate and knows it,” he wrote on X about the president -elect after the conversation.
