
Charlie Kirk had been so much the heart and soul of the organization that he built that his assassination left a great void to fill.
It also created an opportunity for certain individuals to try and hijack the organization. Just when Kirk’s assassination was about to unleash a reckoning with the Left, they sabotaged, undermined and attacked Turning Point USA. Their goal was to undermine the leadership that Charlie had put into place and put themselves and their associates in control.
Turning Point USA initially ignored them. They saw that as a sign of weakness. Now that Turning Point USA is beginning to answer them, they’re gloating. Their endgame, in classic Alinsky fashion, is to force TPUSA to engage them and then to cut a deal with them.
These narcissists, grifters and sociopaths not only robbed us of an opportunity to deal a knockout blow to the violent leftists taking over college campuses, but they’re doing their best to wreck the most potent conservative campus organization, and also a powerful political outreach tool for MAGA and Republicans. Their message is ‘cut a deal with us or we’ll destroy everything’.
Some complain that not enough are condemning them. Condemning them is fine, but let’s face reality, what they’re doing works. One of them in particular has made herself into the ultimate ‘main character’ and gloats every time her name is mentioned. They view condemnations as a form of validation. Being condemned means that they must be on to something. Or why is everyone so upset when they keep suggesting that Erika Kirk killed her husband.
The problem isn’t that they’re bad people. Lots of bad people out there. The problem is that what they’re doing works. Tell enough lies, throw out enough smears, and you’ll get a 3% audience of wine aunts and basement weirdos that will go with it.
This is why we can’t have a movement defined by social media that’s doomed to be defined by the worst people who understand how to hijack the moment and extract maximum power and cash from it for themselves. Charlie deserves better. We deserve better.
Right now they’re on track to accomplish their goal of their plot, hijacking TPUSA and forcing themselves and their allies into positions of power in exchange for making their ‘questions’ go away. If that happens, they’ll bleed it dry and take it down with them.
The answer to beating them isn’t to ‘condemn’ them. It’s to move past them by doing the work that needs to be done. And shutting out the liars, the frauds and the sociopaths. Reposting every one of their unhinged video clips only amplifies them. It gives them more power and influence. It makes them the center of an attention economy. You don’t beat them by denouncing them.
You beat them by moving forward.
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Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Daniel became CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 2025.
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