Mother Jones
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US Politics
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Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point USA in 2012 , a conservative group that promotes free market values.
The group has been forced to adapt as Donald ’s reactionary brand of populism took over the Republican party .
In the past year , he has hosted far-right and white supremacist figures on his podcast and has tweeted in support of whiteness.
In the past year , Kirk has shifted from fetishizing free markets to fetishizing whiteness.
The far-right has been approvingly watching Kirk ’s overtures.
But despite his prominence, it might be better to see Kirk not as an influencer, but as a window into shifting right-wing permission structures.
Last spring , Rolling Stone documented Kirk ’s growing appreciation for Christian Nationalism.
But since then, Kirk has gone beyond that already extreme ideology to make his recent overtures to racists on the right.
Kirk hired Blake Neff , who had spent years as a key producer and writer on Fox News show, helping spread nationalist politics.
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