Charlie Kirk was only 31 years old and a college dropout, but in a little over a decade, he had transformed the nation’s university campuses. A conservative shepherd who managed to galvanize millions of aimless campus conservatives, Kirk’s nonprofit organization, Turning Point USA, transcended his generation. By the time he had helped Donald Trump clinch his second term as president, Kirk had become both one of Trump’s most influential advisers, achieving the level of cultural ubiquity almost unknown these days. Just one month ago, South Park lampooned Kirk without explaining the political celebrity to its audiences, a caricature that Kirk found so hysterical that he briefly adopted South Park’s fictionalization of him as his social media profile picture.

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