Turning Point USA Is Walking a Tightrope

A year after founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the organization is trying to maintain a big tent in a fracturing conservative landscape. Charlie Kirk appears at the University of Nevada in Reno on October 8, 2024. (Photo by Andri Tambunan/AFP via Getty Images) Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. Do you remember where you were on 9/10? For thousands of young conservatives on America’s college and high school campuses, the day of Charlie Kirk’s killing last year marked a watershed moment for their personal political activism; in some corners, the calendar shorthand has been immortalized in the same vein as the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center towers or Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Eli Kronenberg is a Dispatch intern and a rising senior at Northwestern University. When he’s not reporting, he is usually taking long walks, listening to an array of podcasts, or riding the emotional rollercoaster of supporting Tottenham Hotspur. More We Think You’d Like