• AMERICA • AFTER • CHARLIE •
and on Capitol Hill who assumed Kirk’s infl uence would soon fade were profoundly mistaken. In just the fi rst six days after his
President Donald Trump, himself the target of not one but two assassination attempts, told the crowd, “We have to fi ght. We’re saving our country, and Charlie was a big factor.”
Trump announced he would honor Kirk posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
death, Turning Point USA received over 120,000 requests from students eager to start a new TPUSA chapter or join an existing one. Donations along with registrations for Decem- ber’s TPUSA AmericaFest conference in Phoenix poured in. How to measure the legacy and
impact of a man who accomplished more in 31 years than most public fi g- ures dream of in a lifetime? Charlie Kirk changed America in six endur- ing ways:
Armed only with a high school degree, Kirk would outwit and outdebate all comers on college campuses. He be- lieved the restoration of an open and free dialogue in higher education was desperately needed — and the palace guards of political correctness hated him for it. When the nonpartisan Founda-
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tion for Individual Rights in Educa- tion (FIRE) recently published its latest College Free Speech Rankings, based on over 68,000 student surveys across 257 diff erent institutions, only 11 of the 257 schools surveyed received a free speech grade of C or better, while 166 of them received an F. Fully 34% of students felt it was acceptable to use violence to stop speech they found objectionable. Brian Mueller, president of the nondenominational Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, that boasts over 100,000 students tells Newsmax that U.S. higher education needs to refocus on fundamental principles, including America’s founding docu- ments, and respect for the rule of law as found in the U.S. Constitution.
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HE SPARKED EDUCATIONAL REFORMATION
“It is very dangerous,” Mueller
says, “when we have 20- and 21-year- olds in our country who don’t under- stand Western civilization and its his- tory — along with the absolute failure of every Marxist society that doesn’t take into consideration that there is a God, that we are his creatures, and that we were put here for a purpose.” Post-Charlie, in the age of Trump
populism, look for the political spot- light to increasingly expose institu- tions — no matter how “elite” — that downplay or ignore the importance of traditional Western values. One sign the Trump administra-
tion means business: the new civ- ics education coalition launched by the Department of Education in September. The coalition unites over 40 part-
ner organizations — including the America First Policy Institute, Hill- sdale College, the Heritage Founda- tion, and TPUSA — to promote civ- ics in K-12 education as part of next year’s 250th anniversary of America’s founding. “A country cannot survive if its
values are forgotten by its people,” warned Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.
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HE WON GEN Z GOP CONVERTS
One cardinal rule of modern politics over the last 50 years has been that the youth vote always favors Demo- crats. Thanks to the dynamic duo of Trump and Kirk, that assumption has been shattered. When then-Sen. Marco Rubio
of Florida fi rst heard that a young leader named Charlie Kirk planned to barnstorm colleges to spread a pro-America, conservative message, he admits that he was more than a bit skeptical. “On college campuses you’re
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