Kirk is being posthumously celebrated by much of the mainstream press as a noble sparring partner for center-left politicians and pundits. Meanwhile, the very real, very negative, and sometimes violent impacts of his rhetoric and his political projects are being glossed over or ignored entirely.
True but what’s funny about TPUSA (and just about every right wing “grassroots” organization) is that it wasn’t really Charlie Kirk’s baby that took off.
It was started after some wealthy guy named Bill Montgomery approached him and convinced him to start the organization with him instead of going to college. There is like barely anything known about this guy other than he was retired from marketing and had money to spend. Kinda weird right?
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Turning_Point_USA
Yet anytime somebody wants human dignity, equality, or human rights instead of corporate welfare and legalized abuse of those rights, the only explanation that conservatives can give is that George Soros must have paid to put them up to it.
Just kind of makes you wonder how well any of these conservative “grassroots” movements would fare if they didn’t have billionaires backing them to create the illusion that people actually support this shit without being coerced by money and marketing.
Like without the billionaires backing him to be the face that sells their message to the youth (not to mention providing free food to broke college kids), would there ever have been any audience willing to sit and listen to unfunded Charlie Kirk make really dumb arguments for several hours?
He was a millionaire at 31, and he didn’t even go to college, so obviously he must know what he’s talking about about right?