Who Is Charlie Kirk?

My VIP for this week is Charlie Kirk, conservative political activist, author, and media personality who is best known for founding Turning Point USA, a prominent conservative student organization. He was only 18 years old when he co-founded Turning Point USA (TPUSA), an organization that promotes conservative values among students on college campuses. Turning Point USA operates on 3,500 campuses and has a membership of more than 650,000 students. Kirk was instrumental in turning out the young adult vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

I chose Kirk for my VIP for this week because he is active in a movement to replace “Shallow, performative politicians” with conservative leadership” that loves America more than “the money or accolades associated with” politics. Blaze TV recently interviewed Kirk who made the following statements. 

“When we’re constantly trying to be held captive by ideology, it would be prudence, which would be practical judgment, and I think JD Vance embodies that incredibly well,” Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk tells Blaze TV host and Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News: The Mandate.”

“When you’re in elected office, you have to be prisoner to the party dogma and the political expectations of the time. For example, when President Trump entered into the political space 10 years ago,” he continues, “you would never be able to talk about a border wall, let alone mass deportations.”

“So, a true statesman is able to identify the problems and then, with the proper amount of moral courage and with precision, rhetorically be able to address these things and then move the Overton window,” he adds.

This is what separates the likes of Trump and Vance from the rest of the Republican Party, as they are “unafraid to challenge their own political dogma if it’s actually benefitting the nation or the body politic.”

And while many RINO politicians only take action for the optics, statesmen like Vance do it out of real concern for the country and the people – and young people are among those making the difference….

“If you’re young and you want to get involved in politics or being a [statesman], that means that you are likely forsaking making more money and more wealth in another field,” Kirk says. “The high-IQ, high-driven, virtuous people are now saying, ‘You know, okay, fine. I could go make $200 million at Goldman Sachs, but that’s not deep. That’s not fulfilling. Instead, I would rather go be a statesman.’”

            “These are people that could go make a ton of money elsewhere, which means that just                            monetary gain is not the most important. It’s not the driving factor or motivator of so many in                 this generation,” he continues….