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09/22/2025

🧴🐍 Charlie Kirk: The Manufactured “Boy Wonder” of the Right…

The myth goes something like this. An 18-year-old kid, straight out of high school, has a stroke of genius: start a nationwide conservative youth movement to save America. With grit, hustle, and a few prayers, he builds Turning Point USA into an empire. Inspiring, right? Except that it is pure fiction. The truth is that Charlie Kirk didn’t even think of the idea himself. He didn’t bankroll it, he didn’t build it alone, and he sure as hell didn’t pull it off on the strength of his teenage mind. Like so much of the MAGA machine, Kirk was manufactured.

Here is what really happened. In 2012, a 72-year-old Tea Party activist named Bill Montgomery heard Kirk give a talk at a small local event. Montgomery took one look at this kid with ambition in his eyes and told him to skip college and start an organization. Within weeks, Turning Point USA was born. Montgomery wasn’t just a mentor. He was the co-founder, treasurer, and strategist. In plain English: Kirk didn’t invent Turning Point USA. He was recruited into it by an older political operative who saw in him a useful mouthpiece.

Then came the money. Kirk didn’t scrape together pennies from bake sales. He stalked the Republican National Convention in Tampa in 2012 memorizing donor faces. That’s how he buttonholed multimillionaire Foster Friess, pitched him, and walked away with a five-figure check. Add in Bruce Rauner, the future governor of Illinois, and the DeVos family, and suddenly this “teenage entrepreneur” had more capital than most actual start-ups. By 2016, Turning Point’s budget had ballooned from $50,000 to over $5 million. That doesn’t happen because of hustle. That happens because deep-pocketed billionaires decide you are worth buying.

And those billionaires weren’t random. Kirk’s early lifeline came directly from the Koch donor network, DonorsTrust, and foundations like Bradley and DeVos. He was plugged into the same machine that bankrolls every other right-wing think tank and dark-money group. FreedomWorks gave him credibility. Ginni Thomas, wife of Clarence Thomas, signed on as an advisor. Adam Brandon from FreedomWorks joined the board. This wasn’t a kid’s side project. It was a conveyor belt operation: find a willing young face, hand him talking points, surround him with old guard donors, and push him forward as the “future of conservatism.”

The right loves to talk about “merit” and “bootstraps.” But Charlie Kirk is the anti-bootstraps story. He didn’t build it. He was built. His speeches were derivative. His ideas weren’t his. His network was manufactured by billionaires who wanted a college-age mouthpiece to run campus operations they could never pull off themselves. Without Bill Montgomery, Foster Friess, the Koch donor network, and the DeVos family, Charlie Kirk would be a forgotten kid still trying to get into West Point.

What makes this important is not just debunking the Kirk myth. It is understanding the machinery of American conservatism. These people don’t grow movements organically. They don’t rise from the grassroots. They are cultivated, recruited, and bankrolled. They are test-tube populists. Charlie Kirk wasn’t a prodigy. He was a project. And when you look at TPUSA today, raking in nearly $80 million a year, the fingerprints of that project are all over it.

The next time you hear someone gushing about Kirk as a “self-made” activist, remember this: he didn’t even think of the idea himself. He was told what to do, handed money, plugged into a network, and carried to national prominence by people decades older and millions richer. That’s not vision. That’s ventriloquism. And Charlie Kirk has been the dummy on their lap ever since.

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09/13/2025

America lost Charlie Kirk a couple hours ago, violently, tragically, and in a moment that was recorded, and is circulating social. I will not post it because it’s absolutley horrific.

Charlie was not a figure of grace or empathy. History will not remember him as a voice of unity or a champion of justice. He will be remembered for the words he chose, words that often wounded and divided. As he lay bleeding out onstage, those words, once weapons, became dust.

When he was shot, he was speaking about one of America’s deepest wounds: mass shootings. When asked about school shootings, his response was not measured compassion but deflection. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” he said, as if the grief of families who send their children to school only to bury them could be minimized by a technicality. And then, almost instantly, a shot rang out. He fell, his voice instantly silenced.

This is not eulogy-flattery. This is memory.
We remember the things he said about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “MLK was awful. He’s not a good person.” We remember his calculation on gun violence: “I think it’s worth … some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.” These are not the words of healing, not the words of unity. And yet they, too, are part of the ledger he leaves behind.

So what do we do with a legacy like this? First, we tell the truth. We acknowledge what he said, how he said it, and the hurt it caused. Second, we resist the temptation to let violence beget violence. For if this act tells us anything, it is that political violence has become a siren call to the unhinged, a spark they would gladly use to ignite the tinderbox of racial and class resentment. Today it was a conservative voice silenced. Tomorrow, it could just as easily be a progressive one. We must not let this become the currency of politics.

We should also understand the warning buried in this moment. What we say matters. How we live matters. The words we choose, the causes we defend, the way we treat one another, these become the bricks of our legacy. Kirk’s words were often sharp, sometimes cruel, but they are now etched into his memory as surely as his death. Let the rest of us take note: legacies should be rooted in love, in justice, in equality, not in division or deflection.

Rest, if you can, Mr. Kirk. May your final act teach us something lasting: that even in grief, we are called to choose better

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