The conservative activist Charlie Kirk, founder of right-wing student organization Turning Point USA, was assassinated Wednesday as he spoke before a crowd at Utah Valley University on the first stop of a fall campus tour. Kirk was 31 years old and founded Turning Point when he was just 18. A major cheerleader for Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, he was killed by a single shot fired from a roof as he was responding to a question from an audience member about mass shootings. No suspect has been identified. Kirk transformed politics in the U.S., says journalist Jeff Sharlet, by organizing conservative youth around cultural issues including opposition to immigration and civil rights for LGBTQ people, people of color and women. Sharlet, who has written extensively about right-wing and white nationalist movements in the United States, says Kirk’s “big issue was singular: It was whiteness.” He discusses Kirk’s legacy and the implications of this latest high-profile instance of political violence.
The conservative activist Charlie Kirk, founder of right-wing student organization Turning Point USA, was assassinated Wednesday as he spoke before a crowd at Utah Valley University on the first stop of a fall campus tour. Kirk was 31 years old and founded Turning Point when he was just 18. A major cheerleader for Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, he was killed by a single shot fired from a roof as he was responding to a question from an audience member about mass shootings. No suspect has been identified. Kirk transformed politics in the U.S., says journalist Jeff Sharlet, by organizing conservative youth around cultural issues including opposition to immigration and civil rights for LGBTQ people, people of color and women. Sharlet, who has written extensively about right-wing and white nationalist movements in the United States, says Kirk’s “big issue was singular: It was whiteness.” He discusses Kirk’s legacy and the implications of this latest high-profile instance of political violence.
"Vermont Conversation: Journalist Jeff Sharlet on American fascism and how a civil war is speeding up
Everything Trump has said he was going to do, he has attempted to do. It’s time to lay aside the ‘this is just negotiating tactics’. He’s going to negotiate us right down into full fascism.”
“Everything Trump has said he was going to do, he has attempted to do. It's time to lay aside the ‘this is just negotiating tactics.' He's going to negotiate us right down into full fascism.”
Is #Trumpism a #political movement? Or is it more useful to think of it as a mystical offshoot of #American #Christianity?
#OpenDemocracy and #JeffSharlet (#author of The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War) discuss this. See links to podcast ⤵️
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5udBkbPTGyMDXy4skZN5GF
#theundertow #trump #donaldtrump #politicalmovement #religion #americanchristianity #politics #americanpolitics #ukpolitics #britishpolitics #fascism #socioeconomics #worldpolitics #government
How #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump Will attempt Mold #America “in the Image of a #Dictatorship”.
#Reproductiverights #crackdowns, #massdeportations, and a #fealty-based #federal #bureaucracy. The former president has disavowed #Project2025, but #VanityFair’s #MollyJongFast and #JeffSharlet say his #fingerprints are all over it.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/how-donald-trump-will-mold-america-in-the-image-of-a-dictatorship
Reproductive rights crackdowns, mass deportations, and a fealty-based federal bureaucracy. The former president has disavowed Project 2025, but Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast and Jeff Sharlet say his prints are all over it.
Important info! See also #JeffSharlet whose in-depth investigative journalism has outed the Fascist 'Family' behind the Prayer Breakfast (if anyone were paying attention)
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-slow-civil-war-with-jeff-sharlet/ar-BB1pW4S4
Here's a reverie: A Kamala Harris/Jeff Sharlet ticket would be not just a poetic answer to the Republican narrative of family, but an elegiac rebuke of it.
Image: HarperCollins
#JDVance #Politics #Literature #Election #Election2024 #KamalaHarris #JeffSharlet
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