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Charlie Kirk, who was killed on Wednesday during a political event on a Utah college campus at the age of 31, was good at his job. It takes skill, after all, to tour the nation’s college campuses and hold court with lefty undergraduates, dialing up an array of canned responses for the issues pumping through the news cycle: immigration, gender identity, Israel, even gun violence, which video shows he was discussing when he was shot. The same goes for his acumen as a politico. Kirk indeed turned Turning Point USA from a rinky-dink right-wing nonprofit founded before he was 20 into a gargantuan policy-altering machine, famous for raking in oodles of capital from eager

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