Law enforcement tapes off an area after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah. Photo: Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP

This is not a moment for dishonesty. Contrary to the hurried efforts of some Democratic leaders to eulogize Charlie Kirk, we don’t need to pretend the far-right activist engaged in earnest politics “across ideology, through spirited debate” as California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a post on X paying tribute to Kirk.

Kirk, the founder of the far-right movement Turning Points USA, was committed to organizing America’s white young men, from college campus to college campus and beyond, into a politics of revanchist, resentment-fueled, patriarchal white nationalism.

However harmful Kirk’s project

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