FACEBOOK/CHARLIE KIRK


• AMERICA • AFTER • CHARLIE •


skins sensed Trump’s America First agenda gave them a better chance at fi nding a job and a path to future success. “Kirk did something no Repub-


lican in my lifetime did,” Taibbi remarks, “which is to make conser- vatism on campuses a signifi cant po- litical phenomenon.” Taibbi adds that Democrats’ can-


cel culture impulse hasn’t served them well at the ballot box. “They don’t distinguish between


a Christian with youth appeal like Charlie and a censored, former lib- eral Democrat like RFK,” Taibbi writes. “Everybody is lumped under the same MAGA banner and derided as ‘Christian Nationalists’ or what- ever.”


Those factors explain why Dem-


ocrat data expert David Shor la- mented after last year’s election that “Young people have gone from be- ing the most progressive generation since the baby boomers to becoming potentially the most conservative generation that we’ve experienced maybe in 50 or 60 years.” Trump’s strategists, led by Susie


Wiles, Trump campaign co-chair and White House chief of staff , credit Kirk’s winning the hearts and minds of America’s youth with a critical role


in the 2024 presidential outcome. Kirk himself referred to it as “the


greatest generational realignment since Woodstock.”


3.


HE MADE GETTING MARRIED GREAT AGAIN


In her address at Kirk’s memorial, Erika said, “Charlie passionately wanted to reach and save the lost boys of the West: The young men who feel they have no purpose, no faith, and no reason to live . . . the men wast- ing their lives on distractions and the men consumed with resentment, an- ger, and hate.” One reason was his outspoken,


contrarian defense of the traditional American family. Gen Z heterosexual males, who’d


been disparaged as “normies” and suff ered social isolation throughout the pandemic, would hear Kirk’s bold voice urging them to fi nd a wife and get married. Even if they had issues with Char-


lie’s politics, it was a message that clicked. “He talked about family . . . ‘Go get


married,’” said Trump at the memo- rial. “It sounds old-fashioned when you think about it. But he’s right.” The gap between Gen Z men and women over marriage is split


along political lines. An NBC poll earlier this year


showed that Gen Z women who vot- ed for Harris ranked getting married and having kids at the bottom when they defi ned success. Having a good career, achieving


fi nancial independence, owning your own home, and being emotionally sta- ble were seen as more important. But when Gen Z men who voted


for Trump were asked to defi ne suc- cess, their No. 1 defi nition was hav- ing children. That was followed by achieving fi nancial independence, having a rewarding career, and get- ting married. Thanks to Kirk and Trump’s pop-


ulist conservatism, getting married and settling down was suddenly cool again — at least among Gen Z males. Having kids, Charlie told them, was more important than building a big career or racking up a lot of follow- ers on social media. “One of Kirk’s most profound contributions to the Gen Z imagina- tion,” wrote University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox in a piece recently posted on the Institute for Family Studies website, “was the ex- ample he set, in word and deed, as a husband and father — and as a man who relished those roles.”


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