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This 21-Year-Old Conservative Is Challenging The Left On Its Home Turf
Daily Caller ^ | 28 Jun 2015 | Ginni Thomas

Posted on 06/28/2015 8:18:25 AM PDT by mandaladon

Charlie Kirk is a 21-year-old energetic entrepreneur from Lemont, Illinois, who is committed to piercing the left’s stranglehold of the minds of American youth.

Three years ago, he launched Turning Point USA to be a new “clipboard and tennis shoes” grassroots organizing force on college campuses. Today, he is the Executive Director and has 40 staffers, 220 chapters, membership across the nation and affiliates that take their influence to over 1000 campuses.

On campuses, he runs into MoveOn.org, the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood and, most recently, a flood of Hillary for America paid field agents, but he knows and feels he is on to something big.

While Republican or think tank outreach to youth seems “stale” to him, Kirk finds innovative ways to use the culture to connect and show how progressive ideas are perilous to young peoples’ dreams. Turning Point USA’s posters and pamphlets are based on “skepticism of big power by relating it to the Hunger Games, the corruption inherently held in our governmental system in House of Cards, the feudalistic type power struggle that goes on in Game of Thrones.”

One of his most popular posters simply says, “Big Government Sucks!”

Kirk is excited to be a part of this new “counter-cultural, counter-institutional grassroots movement of students rising up fighting back against what has become a liberal, collectivist dominance of higher education and the younger generation.” Kirk believes he is witnessing a “historic rising up of the millennial generation against governmental power.”

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; gop; hillary
Commenting on the hotbeds of intolerance, infantilizing “safe spaces” and rising bigotry to Jews and Christians cropping up on American campuses, Kirk says these developments are “alarming.”

“Liberal professors on campus are very tolerant as long as you hold their beliefs,” Kirk says. “I have never seen a cohort in people in power have such intolerance to constitutional, American, patriotic, free market, capitalistic beliefs.”.............There's hope for the USA

1 posted on 06/28/2015 8:18:25 AM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

Thanks for posting this - it gives great comfort.


2 posted on 06/28/2015 8:23:35 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: mandaladon

Great website. Thanks for the heads up.


3 posted on 06/28/2015 8:29:28 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: mandaladon

Great Post. Thank you. We all need some good news in the face of current idiocy.


4 posted on 06/28/2015 8:32:14 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Mollypitcher1

WTG!!!!!


5 posted on 06/28/2015 8:34:19 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: mandaladon

Wonderful!


6 posted on 06/28/2015 8:41:52 AM PDT by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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To: mandaladon

Fighting big gubmint on college campi? How many decades will it take THAT to filter down to DC? If he REALLY wanted to make a difference in academe NOW, he’d tackle PC. JMHO, of course.


8 posted on 06/28/2015 9:02:41 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: mandaladon

I can see that youth is not all liberals...There’s hope for America, after the ‘Hope and Change’ king, changed America for the worse.


9 posted on 06/28/2015 11:00:43 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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