“I am Charlie Kirk.”
It’s a line emblazoned on Turning Point USA T-shirts and hats that have become hot sellers in wake of the assassination of the controversial conservative activist as he was speaking to thousands of students on a Utah college campus Sept. 10.
Republican leaders in Pennsylvania say the Spartacus-like sentiment also describes what they sense is happening on college campuses across the commonwealth since Kirk’s senseless murder.
Thousands of young conservatives are stepping forward — not to take Kirk’s place, they say, but to pick up his mantle of spreading Christian conservative values through open dialog and civil debate.
This story, chronicling the visceral reaction to Kirk’s killing across Pennsylvania college campuses and the longer-term implications this holds for Keystone State politics, was reported through a collaboration between PennLive and RealClear PA.
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