Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, an organization that promotes conservative politics in high schools and colleges, was fatally shot during an outdoor speaking event at Utah Valley University on the day before the nation remembered 9/11.

He was born in 1993. Kirk described his parents as Republicans, although they were not particularly politically active. During the 1990s, conservatives were castigated for prioritizing free markets and tax cuts over social issues. At the turn of the century, the Republicans gained the presidency primarily as a result of President Bill Clinton’s personal scandals, not because of a strong belief in conservative ideals. Kirk was a child when President George W. Bush attempted to rebrand Republicans as compassionate conservatives, bu

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