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America Is on the Brink of a Great Political Realignment. It’s Already Visible in Arizona.
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 14, 2024 | Michelle Goldberg

Posted on 10/14/2024 8:08:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

One day each month, Charlie Kirk, one of the country’s most influential Republican activists, holds an event called Freedom Night in America at Dream City Church, a Pentecostal megachurch on the outskirts of Phoenix. “I truly believe that God has voted early in this election,” he said on a Wednesday in early October, addressing well over 1,000 people from a stage bathed in red, white and blue lights. “I believe that God voted early on July 13, when he spared the life of Donald Trump.”

Kirk was only 18 when he helped found the group Turning Point as a sort of youth wing of the Tea Party, and for years it was a secular, libertarian-leaning organization. But as the MAGA movement has grown more explicitly Christian nationalist, so has he. “I do not believe that if you love the Lord, read the Bible and call yourself a Christian, that you can vote for Kamala Harris for president,” he said at Dream City.

Today Turning Point has become a pillar of the Republican Party, especially in the swing state of Arizona, where Trump’s campaign has outsourced much of its ground operation to the group. Its strategy, which it calls “chase the vote,” is to tap into new parts of the electorate by targeting what the campaign calls “low propensity voters,” the sort of alienated, disconnected people, especially men, who’d presumably gravitate toward Trump if they could be bothered to cast ballots at all. “We’re going to make it too big to rig on Election Day,” said Kirk.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: arizona; charliekirk; kirk; michellegoldberg; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; turningpoint
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1 posted on 10/14/2024 8:08:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The New York Times has its 99th meltdown in the past 4 days…


2 posted on 10/14/2024 8:12:41 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Peak crazy is almost here.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I live in Phoenix. I see the billboards on I-17.


3 posted on 10/14/2024 8:14:33 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Every day Charlie Kirk and TPA put up new videos of their campus rallies on X. They are outstanding. He’s really clicking with the college kids.


4 posted on 10/14/2024 8:19:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (It should be illegal to be here illegally. It should be a crime to be committing crimes in the USA.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

>> as the MAGA movement has grown more explicitly Christian nationalist

GUILTY!!! Guilty as charged, youbetcha!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA So Very Guilty! CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST I am, ya got that right!!! MAGA! Make America Great Again! Make America GODLY Again!!!

Put that in yer pipe and smoke it, Michelle Goldberg!


5 posted on 10/14/2024 8:22:01 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Michelle Goldberg -- yet ANOTHER New York Times sawdust-for-brains phony intellectual with oh-so-chic smart glasses...

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6 posted on 10/14/2024 8:27:02 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Nervous Tick

The Latino Evanglical Church is the fastest growing in the US. The forces of Satan thought that Latinos would stamp thier satanic marxism complete. Heh.


7 posted on 10/14/2024 8:28:30 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Nervous Tick

She should be afraid, see tagline.


8 posted on 10/14/2024 8:29:04 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Nervous Tick

The wave of change is sweeping over the nation and the whole of the west. I see Trump being pulled into power with a GOP house and Senate—as well as many governors. Reform will dominate the UK with Frange as PM, National Alliance will dominate France with President LePen, Right wing German party’s dominate both Germany and Austria. Change will be fundamental in the west and will seep into other lands like Canada, Spain and Mexico as it has in Argentina. I also see a revival set to sweep America, tent show revivals will have many giving themselves to Jesus. The churches will be full again.


9 posted on 10/14/2024 8:29:32 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Intellectual: a person who has been educated beyond their intelligence level.


10 posted on 10/14/2024 8:42:26 PM PDT by Calvin Cooledge
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Michelle Goldberg doesn’t know or care what the definition of Christian Nationalism is. It is just the elite slur of the election


11 posted on 10/14/2024 8:45:09 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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But as the MAGA movement has grown more explicitly Christian nationalist,

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NYT is dang commie propaganda.


12 posted on 10/14/2024 8:47:26 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
National Alliance will dominate France with President LePen

Not so sure about France. Macron is able to manipulate their elections to prevent National Alliance from taking power.

13 posted on 10/14/2024 8:50:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just referring to God as “he” will drive the lefties nuts


14 posted on 10/14/2024 8:56:56 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I believe Charlie Kirk will someday be president.


15 posted on 10/14/2024 8:58:29 PM PDT by WHATNEXT?
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To: WHATNEXT?

He’ll have to run for something.

As for the realignment wake me when the shuttle lands.


16 posted on 10/14/2024 9:19:18 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
When I hear Turning Point I think of Dr. David Jeremiah from his radio ministry called Turning Point.

Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah - Thy Kingdom Come

17 posted on 10/14/2024 10:30:20 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

“I see...”

I like your vision, and your speaking in faith that which is not yet as though it were. And I align with you on all that.

FRegards and Blessings!


18 posted on 10/14/2024 10:31:21 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Nervous Tick

. . . and a wig.


19 posted on 10/14/2024 11:35:37 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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How much time does she now spend visiting the Columbia Campus to interact with the peeps occupying the joint?


20 posted on 10/14/2024 11:55:11 PM PDT by Paladin2
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