One year after Charlie Kirk’s death, the organization is a joke — even on the right
When Charlie Kirk was alive, his wife Erika had a retrograde role that was easy to understand. She didn’t use the word, but she was a tradwife.
Her position at Turning Point USA, the organization her husband co-founded in 2012 to promote conservative politics on high school, college and university campuses across the country, was essentially to dote on him as her leader.
After they married in 2021, she became the evidence that Charlie Kirk was living up to his own beliefs about male leadership — and female submission — at home during the crucial period that he was rebranding himself as an evangelical leader from the secular libertarian he had been.
This article is disingenuous to say the least. Kirk’s death was met with bipartisan celebration, not horror. The left of course because he was a fascist who died in the most ironical manner possible. On the right cause they now had a martyr. The only people horrified were those who bought into his performance of debate.
Plus he was fresh in a lot of peoples minds as South Park aired an episode targeted at him and Cartman doing his “master debater” shtick less than a month before it happened.
I’ve not seen this, it just occoured to me that South Park has probably been trolling all of these people the last two years.
South Park is usually mildly to moderately transgressive, but the last season was quite a bit more pointed. Like Mr Garrison used to be a stand in for Trump, but they’ve completely shelved that and now trump’s face is pasted over the complete character of saddam hussein: flapping head, voice, and gay relationship with Satan.
Mercilessly, at that