LOS ANGELES—For many young conservatives, Charlie Kirk was a political first love. In the rising conservative star’s public events at college campuses—where he cheerily entertained questions, sometimes hostile ones, from audience members of all political persuasions—they saw a hopeful rejoinder to the rancor of campus politics and to political isolation.
The Sept. 10 assassination of Kirk at just such an event in Utah is not deterring them, but rather galvanizing a generation to continue in his footsteps, they told The Epoch Times.
