Twitter Threads Debunking Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA

In April 2022, Charlie Kirk, president and founder of Turning Point USA, published another opinion on Newsweek, which has published his opinions for many months, and many of these I have debunked. Kirk’s April 28th piece is about what he calls the rise of the “elite dissident.” …

On May 5, 2022 I published Twitter thread concerning Charlie Kirk’s false teaching about how Christians should conduct themselves politically. That thread pointed out Kirk’s teaching implied a particular view of the end of the world aka the “end times” known as postmillennialism. I want to expand on that thread…

In his visit to Grace Church in St. Louis on April 3, Charlie Kirk, founder and president of Turning Point USA, listed several US civics concepts that he said were based in Biblical principles. One is the “consent of the governed,” as mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. Kirk has…

On March 5, Charlie Kirk, president and founder of Turning Point USA, gave a platform on his radio show/podcast to Pedro L. Gonzalez, an associate editor at Chronicles, a magazine which examines “American society in defense of Western Civilization.” Gonzalez has written for Newsweek, like Kirk. …

In 2019, Charlie Kirk famously apologized to anti-immigrant supporters because he was deemed too soft on immigration. This came after a series of embarrassing moments made possible by a far-right immigration group that hounded him at a few of his campus events. …

The turn to Christian Nationalism by Charlie Kirk has meant he has had to change many of his stated views. One change was about the Founders. Another is taking the “peace rhetoric” of the Christian faith and turning it on its head. For that Kirk has turned to Machiavelli. Machiavelli…

If you have read my work on Charlie Kirk’s transformation from Christian to Christian nationalist, then you noticed this happened when Kirk began his discipleship under a California megachurch pastor in 2020. The turn to Christian nationalism has changed Kirk’s agnostic view on politics and the church. On the second…

Charlie Kirk, founder and president of Turning Point USA, has since his emergence been anti-higher education. His first swipe was at West Point, which rejected his admission in 2012. Then TPUSA’s first major campaign against higher education painted me and other professors as those in need of being “watched.” Kirk…

In many ways during September 2020, Charlie Kirk, president and founder of Turning Point USA, has promoted for use in Covid patients the medicine usually reserved to treat heartworms in animals, Ivermectin. He posted a photo on Instagram with the podcast host and actor Joe Rogan who contracted Covid and…