To the clowns on the Left who think that Charlie Kirk will be forgotten in five years, you’re about to get wrecked. First, most predictions by liberals are trash. They thought Trump couldn’t win again: he steamrolled back into the White House. These people are unhinged, unserious, and unrelatable. Mute their whining, because it’s just incoherent garbage anyway. Kirk was assassinated while answering questions on September 10 at Utah Valley University in Orem. Since then, the outpouring of prayers and calls to action has caught the attention of one unlikely demographic—older Americans.
Turning Point USA was founded as a student activist organization. Since Mr. Kirk’s murder, Boomer conservatives want to get involved. It wasn’t just young conservatives who were affected by the death of the TPUSA founder. Some are wondering if they could start chapters of their own (via NYT):
In death, however, Mr. Kirk is reaching new generations.
Sonya Buckhannon, 52, a sales rep who lives on a barrier island off Charleston, S.C., sent a message to Turning Point USA days after Mr. Kirk’s death asking how she could get involved with the group’s work, possibly by starting a chapter for parents and grandparents in her area.
“With his death, people are recognizing they weren’t the only ones who felt that way,” she said. “There are lots of people in my generation who are here to be advocates for him.”
Across the country this week, parents and grandparents said that watching young people’s intense grief over Mr. Kirk’s public assassination has prompted older conservatives like themselves to look seriously at his work for the first time.
A memorial service for Mr. Kirk will be held on Sunday morning at an N.F.L. stadium in Glendale, Ariz., a gathering expected to attract a wide range of Mr. Kirk’s devotees, young and old.
Pastors said the assassination of someone many saw as not just a political voice but a spiritual leader seemed to draw people of all ages to church this week.
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Turning Point USA has received more than 54,000 inquiries from people wanting to start new campus chapters, a spokesman said earlier this week.
Some of that interest appears to be coming from people well beyond the traditional campus demographics. On Facebook, posts about Mr. Kirk have attracted comments from people saying they want to start chapters for parents, grandparents, Gen X and other groups outside Mr. Kirk’s core audience.
“Charlie Kirk was not for olds like me,” the conservative American writer Rod Dreher, 58, said in an email. But conversations in Hungary, where Mr. Dreher lives, revealed Mr. Kirk to be a significant influence on young conservatives there. And one of his daughters attended a prayer service for Mr. Kirk on her college campus in Louisiana.
Some were saying that a million Charlie Kirks were created when he was killed answering questions. They were right.
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