The Charlie Kirk blueprint

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The Global Story

2025-09-12

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On Wednesday, the divisive conservative political activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on the first stop of his ‘American Comeback Tour’, where he invited students to engage him in political discussion. Kirk was the founder of the conservative nonprofit Turning Points USA and one of Donald Trump’s most powerful advocates, especially among young people. But his impact stretched far beyond the United States, as he leveraged social media to reinvent the right's image around the world. Today, we speak to Semafor political correspondent, David Weigel, about the blueprint Kirk pioneered for winning young minds to the conservative cause. Then, we speak to Daniel Ogoloma, who partnered with Kirk for a debate while he was a student at Oxford University. He tells us about his plan to bring Kirk’s ideas into Nigerian politics. Producers: Viv Jones, Xandra Ellin, Valerio Esposito, Lucy Pawle, Sam Chantarasak Executive producer: Annie Brown Mix: Travis Evans Senior news editor: China Collins Photo credit: Trent Nelson / The Salt Lake Tribune / Reuters
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  • When Donald Trump won the White House in 2016,

  • he did so with very little support from young conservatives.

  • But eight years later, he swooped back into power with throngs of faithful young MAGA fans,

  • in major part because of one man.

  • I go around universities and have challenging conversations

  • because that's what is so important to our country,

  • is to find our disagreements.

  • Respectfully because when people stop talking that's when violence happens Charlie Kirk the 31 year old right-wing activist was murdered this week at a rally on a college campus in Utah He was a fixture at universities trying to make conservative ideas cool and debating young people Anybody who wanted to challenge him,

  • but he was also a culture warrior and a polarizing figure The spiritual battle is coming to the west,

  • and the enemies are wokeism or Marxism, combining with Islamism,

  • to go after what we call the American way of life.

  • You're comparing abortion to the Holocaust.

  • Absolutely I am.

  • In fact, it's worse.

  • The cancer of transgenderism, which is from the pit of hell.

  • America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever.

  • If I'm dealing with somebody in customer service who's a moronic black woman,

  • I wonder, is she there because of her excellence?

  • Or is she there because affirmative action almost creates?

  • And in the last few months,