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Wild Cargo Pets, situated just south of the intersection of Gun Club Road and Military Trail, in West Palm Beach, is a renowned local institution. During the past seventy-five years, the family-owned store has taken exotic animals to visit children at the homes of the Kennedys and, more recently, Donald Trump, Jr. One early-spring morning, a sign above the parking lot read \u201cTHE SON OF MAN WILL RETURN JUST LIKE THE DAYS OF NOAH<\/em>.\u201d Inside the shop, Gracie Bell Joyce, who is sixteen, with deep dimples and hazel eyes, reached into a glass terrarium to stroke Big Bertha, the Colombian red-tailed boa that acts as Wild Cargo\u2019s ambassador.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe\u2019s super, super sweet,\u201d Joyce said. \u201cShe will bite, but she hasn\u2019t bit anyone.\u201d Joyce, whose parents are second-generation owners of the store, is an \u201cunschooler,\u201d meaning she has directed her own education: she learned to read by filling orders at the store, and to add and subtract by working the register. She also raised a baby kangaroo named Bunny, who slept in a pouch at the end of her bed. But Joyce\u2019s job at the pet store served a higher purpose. While advising customers on care for an albino python or a bearded dragon, she evangelized them. Joyce told me, \u201cThe best way to do it when you\u2019re explaining how to take care of an animal, you always say, \u2018Copy God\u2019s natural design.\u2019\u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joyce\u2019s hero is Charlie Kirk, the late conservative influencer, who called upon young people to extoll the Gospel wherever they went. In April, 2025, he told an audience of eighteen hundred college students at the University of Wyoming that even if they became electricians they could still evangelize. \u201cYou\u2019re probably gonna walk into ten thousand to fifteen thousand homes,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is a mission field.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2024, when Joyce was fourteen, she founded a Palm Beach County chapter of Kirk\u2019s youth organization, Turning Point USA. Kirk and his group were vital to turnout efforts for all three of Donald Trump\u2019s campaigns, and leading a Turning Point chapter in Trump\u2019s home county put Joyce in startling proximity to power. In 2025, she attended the Celebrate American Exceptionalism gala at Mar-a-Lago, where she was one of the youngest people in the room. \u201cI was talking to people who were my parents\u2019 and grandparents\u2019 age and with some of the richest people in the world,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was insane.\u201d Through Turning Point, she became friendly with the owner of an aviation company; she said that she occasionally ran into Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump\u2019s Ambassador to Greece and Trump, Jr.,\u2019s ex-fianc\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For Joyce, however, Kirk\u2019s political positions were much less important than his faith. \u201cHe was huge on pro-life,\u201d she explained. \u201cHe was huge on a Christian stance on everything. He was really big on bringing back our base values in America that we were founded on.\u201d Her activism with Turning Point was about promoting Christianity in schools and homes. \u201cI\u2019m not encouraging kids to start a chapter or start their own podcast. I\u2019m encouraging kids to go to church or to read their Bible more,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Joyce was young for a Turning Point leader: there were some high-school chapters, but most were run by college students. Her age didn\u2019t faze her. Kirk, after all, had started his right-wing youth movement shortly after graduating from high school, with the aim of opposing left-wing efforts such as Occupy Wall Street and MoveOn. He quickly became a darling of older Republicans. At the 2012 Republican National Convention, he secured a ten-thousand-dollar donation to his organization from the prominent evangelical investment manager Foster Friess. Soon, Kirk, who was from the suburbs of Chicago, began courting donors in Palm Beach. His previous garb of nerdy suits gave way to sports coats and sneakers.<\/p>\n

Kirk, who dropped out of community college, made universities the testing ground for his movement. Not long after he founded Turning Point, Kirk began staging tours of American colleges, taking on liberal students in rapid-fire encounters that came to be called \u201cProve Me Wrong\u201d debates. The topics\u2014\u201cAbortion is murder,\u201d \u201cCollege is a scam\u201d\u2014were designed to provoke his challengers, and as the events grew more popular, drawing hundreds or thousands of onlookers, Kirk developed his iconic approach to ideological opponents. He became annoyingly calm, unspooling practiced arguments about crime in Black communities or the dangers of illegal immigration. He was a talented debater, though he sometimes leaned on misleading statistics and memorable one-liners. \u201cKids are way more important than being a data scientist at Dropbox,\u201d he told one young woman, who argued for starting a career before having children. \u201cWe have seen a spike where half of women in their thirties that are unmarried are on antidepressants.\u201d (This is inaccurate.) Although Kirk would occasionally concede a point or confess that he didn\u2019t have a ready response to a question, the aim of these debates wasn\u2019t mutual understanding; it was reducing his opponents to a state of outrage or dismay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Among Gen Z-ers, clips from Kirk\u2019s debates went viral, circulating on social media and YouTube with headlines such as \u201cCharlie Kirk DESTROYS<\/em> Liberal Logic.\u201d He modelled arguments for young conservatives to follow. Beginning in her early teens, Joyce loved watching Kirk\u2019s debates on Instagram, seeing in them not carefully honed rhetorical tactics but authentic civility. \u201cHe could completely win the argument and debate\u2014no matter how rude, disgusting, and nasty these people would get toward him,\u201d she told me. \u201cHe was not fake. He was not stuck up. He was kind. He was caring. He listened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, on September 10th, Kirk was assassinated in the midst of a debate, in front of some three thousand people at Utah Valley University. Afterward, Joyce was inundated with D.M.s, phone calls, and visits to the pet store by kids who wanted to get involved in Turning Point or start their own chapters. Joyce knew that her state was growing redder. Still, she said, \u201cI didn\u2019t realize how fast Florida was going until I got a million different requests.\u201d This spring, even as teens launched chapters of Turning Point across Palm Beach County, they grappled with dissension within the organization over Kirk\u2019s legacy and Trump\u2019s wars. Some began to move away from it. Joyce remained. She told me, \u201cThere are some kids like myself who have put their faith in their trust and courage in God and continue to walk forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time of Kirk\u2019s assassination, he was arguably the most powerful political organizer in America. Beginning in 2016, when Kirk was twenty-two, he spoke at each Republican National Convention. He harnessed his charisma, his organizing power, and his closeness to the Trump family to build the largest and wealthiest right-wing youth organization in the country, with revenue of eighty-five million dollars in 2024. That fall, Kirk visited twenty-four college campuses and travelled with a new Christian arm of his organization, TPUSA Faith, to cast the Presidential election as a fight against evil. Democrats \u201cstand for everything God hates,\u201d Kirk said, calling the Trump campaign \u201ca spiritual battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kirk had been animated first by traditional Republican topics, such as school vouchers and lower taxes, and he still sometimes spoke about those issues. But, after defending the separation of church and state early in his career, he\u2019d embraced the Christian vision of America that drew Joyce to his movement. The pandemic played a pivotal role in this transformation. As campuses shut down, his college tours were cancelled. Many states and local governments limited in-person worship, deeming large gatherings unsafe; Kirk began speaking to congregations that defied COVID<\/em> regulations. \u201cCharlie thought that the church was going to push back, and they didn\u2019t,\u201d Andrew Kolvet, a spokesperson for Turning Point and the producer of Kirk\u2019s daily broadcast, \u201cThe Charlie Kirk Show,\u201d told me. \u201cAnd so he realized that there was a huge void in the space for churches to get on board and to be a part of this liberty movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the pandemic years, Kirk found common cause with Rob McCoy, an influential pastor from Godspeak Calvary Chapel, in Southern California, and a proponent of a once little-known movement called the Seven Mountains Mandate. Seven Mountains has brought the language of spiritual warfare and demon-fighting into the mainstream of evangelicalism, through a network of pastors who view themselves as prophets and apostles engaged in a battle against evil secular forces. The movement \u201cis both political and religious,\u201d Matthew Boedy, a professor of English at the University of North Georgia and the author of a book about Seven Mountains, explained. Its leaders, who include the televangelists Lance Wallnau and Paula White, urge believers to take control of seven spheres of influence in the United States\u2014education, entertainment, media, religion, family, business, and government. \u201cSeven Mountains isn\u2019t just charismatic theology,\u201d Kristin Du Mez, a professor of history at Calvin University who studies the current Christian right, told me. \u201cThis is a vision for a total takeover of society.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kirk helped popularize some of the principles of Seven Mountains, introducing the idea of the seven spheres to his millions of followers. His broader notion of returning America to its supposed theological origins is often known as Christian nationalism. (Kolvet rejected the term, calling it \u201ca pejorative used to smear and categorize conservative Christians.\u201d) Kirk often spoke about the Founders, arguing that the country had been envisioned by and for Protestants. \u201cOne of the reasons we\u2019re living through a constitutional crisis is that we no longer have a Christian nation, but we have a Christian form of government, and they\u2019re incompatible,\u201d he said in 2024. His later posts online interspersed paeans to Scripture with warnings about American decline and support for President Trump\u2019s immigration policies. \u201cNo civilization has ever collapsed because it prays too much,\u201d he wrote on X a week before his death. \u201cBut a civilization that abandons God will deteriorate and ultimately collapse from the inside out, or because it loses the will to repel a malicious, external force.\u201d For Kirk and millions of other believers, those forces were terrifyingly real. Speaking at Illinois State University in 2025, he warned of \u201can unknown, unseen demonic realm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two days after Kirk was killed, his widow, Erika Kirk, declared him \u201ca martyr.\u201d She exhorted his young followers, \u201cIf you aren\u2019t a member of a church, I beg you to join one, a Bible-believing church. Our battle is not simply a political one above all. It is spiritual. The spiritual warfare is palpable.\u201d Kirk\u2019s memorial, which took place in Arizona, where he had lived, was attended by nearly a hundred thousand people. Held at State Farm Stadium, in Glendale, the event featured remarks by President Trump and Vice-President J.\u00a0D. Vance, who had flown to Utah on Air Force Two to bring Kirk\u2019s body home. Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, declared Kirk \u201ca warrior for Christ,\u201d who \u201cstarted a political movement but unleashed a spiritual revival.\u201d The conservative talk-show host Tucker Carlson, who counted Kirk as a spiritual adviser, struck a prophetic note, comparing Kirk\u2019s death to the Crucifixion. \u201cHe was bringing the Gospel to the country,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cHe was doing the thing that the people in charge hate most, which is calling for them to repent.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the final months of his life, Kirk rebranded Turning Point\u2019s high-school chapters, casting them as part of his new vision of the United States. He called the program Club America. \u201cWe realized that the indoctrination of young kids to hate their country and to think that we\u2019re just a bunch of systemically oppressive colonialists that hate Indigenous people was happening earlier and earlier,\u201d Kolvet told me. \u201cWe wanted to have a presence in high schools, so that conservative kids, Christian kids, more liberty-minded kids, kids who were curious or who just had a penchant for loving their country, had a place to meet and gather.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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According to Kolvet, the name, which was first suggested by Turning Point field organizers, delighted Kirk. \u201cCharlie loved calling it Club America,\u201d Kolvet said. \u201cHow can you not love a club that celebrates America?\u201d Club America would focus more on patriotism than on partisanship, encouraging students to put up flags and stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. \u201cLet\u2019s keep it simple,\u201d Kolvet said, recalling Kirk\u2019s thinking. \u201cWe love the greatness of America. We believe in the exceptionalism of this country and in the Providence of God having his hand on this country.\u201d Faith, he added, was integrated into every aspect of Turning Point. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean that you have to be a Christian to be part of Club America, but, listen, there\u2019s so many kids that were inspired by Charlie\u2019s faith,\u201d he said. \u201cSo it\u2019s there, and it\u2019s a huge part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kirk\u2019s ambition was to seed a Club America chapter in every high school in the country. Kolvet told me that, after Kirk\u2019s death, he \u201crealized that Charlie\u2019s vision was within reach.\u201d Officials in eight states\u2014Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas\u2014encouraged students to establish Club America chapters in their public schools, often describing the group as devoted to free speech and civil discourse. Turning Point says there are now thirty-six hundred Club America chapters nationwide. (Not all are officially recognized as student organizations.)<\/p>\n

After Kirk\u2019s death, Club America chapters proliferated in Palm Beach County\u2019s private schools, including the Benjamin School, which is among the most academically rigorous. The school was founded in 1960, when the town of Palm Beach was mostly a seasonal community. Now, following the pandemic, Palm Beach has become a leading destination for families relocating from New Jersey, New York, and California. High-school tuition at Benjamin is roughly forty thousand dollars per year. Tiger Woods\u2019s son, Charlie, recently finished his junior year, and Trump,\u00a0Jr.,\u2019s daughter Kai just graduated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is primarily a white and wealthy school,\u201d Nahla Bond, a junior and the president of the diversity council, told me when I visited the campus this spring. \u201cThe parents are Republicans, and so are the kids.\u201d But events in students\u2019 lifetimes also played a role in sharpening their opinions. Darren Lowe, a retired banker and the former chair of the board of the Benjamin School, told me, \u201cThe kids that are growing up here that are the COVID<\/em> babies, who are ages fourteen to twenty, question other people telling them what to do.\u201d During the pandemic, Lowe, the father of two boys, wrestled with establishing safety measures at Benjamin, and he was struck by the arbitrariness of many health protocols. \u201cWe found there were a lot of doctors that were wrong on the right. There were a lot of doctors that were wrong on the left,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we also found that no doctor ever came back to us and said, \u2018By the way, I was wrong.\u2019\u00a0\u201d Kids in the community, including Lowe\u2019s elder son and his friends, were subject to inconsistent rules, which made them quick to question authority. \u201cThey grew up faster,\u201d Lowe said.<\/p>\n

Unbeknownst to many parents, Charlie Kirk was reaching millions of adolescents online during the COVID<\/em> lockdown, warning about government overreach and liberal shaming. After Kirk claimed that the drug hydroxychloroquine was \u201c100 percent effective\u201d in treating COVID<\/em>-19, he was temporarily banned from Twitter. But kids weren\u2019t following him on Twitter. They were watching videos of him on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, in which Kirk stoked resistance to vaccine mandates, arguing that they created \u201calmost this apartheid-style, open-air hostage situation\u201d and that they were particularly unfair to low-risk groups, such as people under thirty. \u201cChildren are so phone-based and YouTube-based that a lot of us as parents, if we were more middle of the road, were surprised at how the children were viewing it,\u201d Lowe told me. By taking on established authority figures, Kirk became phenomenally consequential. \u201cI would say that eighty per cent of the parents down here learned about Charlie Kirk and what he was presenting after he died, not before,\u201d Lowe said. \u201cAnd his death galvanized those children.\u201d<\/p>\n

About a week after Kirk\u2019s killing, Benjamin observed a minute of silence in his honor at the end of an assembly, which was followed by an invitation to gather at a flagpole and pray. Students went on to found the Club America chapter, which quickly became one of the most popular groups at the school, amassing forty or fifty members. Ava Seested, a senior, had started watching Kirk\u2019s debates in middle school. When he died, she said, \u201ceveryone who followed him felt the loss of a brother, because of how grounded he was in his faith, how much he led people to God.\u201d Julian Koehler, a sophomore and a nationally ranked golfer, first encountered Kirk on Instagram and was drawn to his stance on abortion; Kirk opposed it, on the basis of his Christian faith, with virtually no exceptions. Koehler\u2019s mother, Evelyn Burbano-Koehler, credited Kirk with kicking off a spiritual revival. \u201cIn this country, it became bad to have faith and say the word \u2018God,\u2019 but it\u2019s changing,\u201d she told me. (A recent Gallup poll suggests that young men, in particular, are experiencing a deepening connection to their faith, with forty-two per cent saying religion is \u201cvery important\u201d to them.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The praise for Charlie Kirk proved controversial among some Benjamin students. Bond said she was \u201cshocked\u201d that her classmates were honoring Kirk. Although she described her political leanings as \u201clibertarian\u201d\u2014a term she landed on by doing an online quiz in her A.P. government class\u2014she was turned off by Kirk\u2019s statements about civil rights and gender identity, among other topics. He frequently maligned Black leaders, calling Martin Luther King, Jr., \u201ca bad guy,\u201d and described the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as \u201ca huge mistake.\u201d He said that \u201cthe transgender thing happening in America\u201d was \u201ca throbbing middle finger to God.\u201d Kirk was also a proponent of the \u201cgreat replacement\u201d theory, which posits that a liberal \u00e9lite\u2014particularly Jews\u2014is attempting to erase white America by flooding the country with immigrants. \u201cThey won\u2019t stop until you and your children and your children\u2019s children are eliminated,\u201d he warned. Bond asked, \u201cWhat Charlie Kirk said about women and people of color, how can you agree with that or think that\u2019s normal?\u201d<\/p>\n

Liam Duffy, a sandy-haired senior who served as vice-president of the diversity council and president of the student body, vehemently opposed Kirk. Duffy, who is openly gay, was well liked and more outspoken than many of his classmates. One evening, he invited me over for a dinner of filet mignon and baked sweet potatoes with his parents and his sister, a sophomore at Benjamin. During dinner, as CNN played in the background, Duffy pointed out that a few weeks earlier the TV would\u2019ve been tuned to Fox News. His parents, who had voted for Trump in the past three elections, were moving away from him because of his increasing engagement in foreign wars. Still, they didn\u2019t share their son\u2019s liberal politics or his disdain for Kirk. \u201cHe\u2019s homophobic, so I\u2019m not a fan,\u201d Duffy said. \u201cI also think he\u2019s racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A few days later, Duffy hosted my visit to Benjamin. Duffy, who\u2019d been handing out Dunkin\u2019 Donuts to classmates, led me through an airy compound of blue-and-white buildings surrounding a turf-covered knoll dotted with Adirondack chairs. Outside an English classroom, a bulletin board featured an image of a smiling pig and the last line of \u201cAnimal Farm\u201d: \u201cThe creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inside the classroom, Duffy introduced me to Seested, who wore a Parke mock-turtleneck sweatshirt. (\u201cHoodies overstimulate me,\u201d she said.) A transplant from the North, like so many kids at Benjamin, she grew up in Maryland as a nondenominational Christian, attending Catholic school until she was nine. \u201cI would go to school and do Hail Marys,\u201d she said. \u201cI knew deep down that my belief was that we only pray to God.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2017, Seested\u2019s family threw out their snow scrapers and moved to Florida, where she found herself among like-minded Christians and a welcoming conservative culture. Seested soon began watching Kirk on YouTube at night before bed. \u201cI wanted to be informed about why I was believing what I believed, and I wanted to have the facts,\u201d she said. Seested was especially compelled by Kirk\u2019s strong stance on illegal immigration. Her mother, Biani Xavier, had emigrated legally from Brazil, and the family felt that, as Xavier told me later, \u201cif someone gets deported, they\u2019re breaking a law.\u201d Seested said that watching Kirk had taught her \u201cto be very proud of what you believe in but also be respectful and do it in a way that you love everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Seested attended Club America\u2019s lunchtime debates, which took place in a calculus classroom decorated with University of Florida pennants. Inspired by a format often used on Jubilee, a popular YouTube channel, one conservative student took a seat in the center of a ring of chairs, and liberal audience members jostled to sit across from him and debate him. They argued over hot-button topics\u2014health care, gun rights\u2014in three-minute rounds. Seested didn\u2019t volunteer to debate, but she listened closely and was impressed by the eloquence of speakers on both sides. \u201cI think he had good facts, good evidence,\u201d she said of a liberal classmate. \u201cAlthough I don\u2019t agree.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, Duffy told me that, despite the high rates of attendance, he was one of only about ten kids willing to participate at the debates. At the first one, in November, he\u2019d argued in favor of abortion and gun control. At another, in February, he\u2019d contested the legality of ICE<\/em> raids in Minneapolis. But, when one student made a provocative claim that noncitizens aren\u2019t entitled to equal protection, the debate devolved. Boys on the sidelines began to clap and whoop. \u201cA lot of people like the spectacle,\u201d Duffy said. \u201cIt\u2019s like watching a YouTube video.\u201d<\/p>\n

Club America had a moment at Benjamin, but it may have more lasting appeal among teens who see themselves as being outside the conservative establishment. Kirk was fixated on the economic woes of young people. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to stay poor,\u201d he said in his speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to accept being worse off than your parents.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. You don\u2019t have to support leaders who lied to you and took advantage of you for your vote.\u201d Many kids joined Club America in part because Kirk\u2019s conservative principles appealed to them and in part because rubbing elbows with wealthy donors who frequented Mar-a-Lago did, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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One afternoon, Gracie Bell Joyce met three current and former officers of Club America at a Starbucks a couple of miles from the pet store. The four were friends, and Joyce called the others her \u201cteam.\u201d Jayden Antropov, a floppy-haired recent high-school graduate, had taken the day off from working two part-time jobs, at Publix and at a burger joint. He was the only one who\u2019d met Kirk, he told me proudly; Antropov had encountered him at two Turning Point events in 2023, and Kirk had called on him to start a chapter at his high school, in Palm Beach County. Nick Perisse, wearing a suit and a red tie, was a fervent young Catholic whose family had arrived from Brazil in 2017. He\u2019d founded a chapter at his public high school, in neighboring Martin County, in 2025. Juan Suarez Escobar, who was born in Venezuela, had emigrated from Colombia with his family in 2016. He was a student at a private Christian school, the King\u2019s Academy, and ran a regional chapter of Club America. He also worked as a cater waiter and pulled espresso shots at a nearby BMW dealership on weekends.<\/p>\n

In addition to the pressures of work and school, there were challenges to being a visible member of Kirk\u2019s movement. \u201cThere\u2019s a million people out there who hate us,\u201d Joyce said as she waited in line for a Mint Majesty tea with two pumps of honey\u2014Kirk\u2019s signature drink. When her tea was ready, Joyce cupped her hands around the warm drink and recounted a story she\u2019d seen on Instagram of a woman who\u2019d made the same order only to have \u201closer\u201d written on her cup. \u201cAnytime I post something in support of Trump, I get \u2018MAGA<\/em> maggot\u2019 in my comment section,\u201d Joyce said.<\/p>\n

Perisse had recently represented Turning Point in a debate at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, and he\u2019d been heckled by liberals while he was arguing against abortion. \u201cI was booed and called a fascist,\u201d he said. Perisse was an intellectual, and his family wasn\u2019t rich; he was used to being an outsider, which was a large part of why he liked Kirk. \u201cCharlie led a group of students who felt disenfranchised by the establishment, who for years were cast aside as if their opinions had no value,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Joyce posed the boys for a picture, calling them her \u201cfellow-nerds.\u201d Suarez Escobar ducked out of the frame. \u201cSpeak for yourself!\u201d he said. He hoped to be a Marine pilot, and with aviators hanging from the neck of his quarter zip he epitomized the new \u201cTop Gun\u201d conservative aesthetic. Suarez Escobar said he had been drawn to Kirk\u2019s movement mostly because of his own political leanings\u2014he described himself as a fan of Marco Rubio\u2014and also because he viewed it as \u201chelpful for college.\u201d In 2024, the same year he became a U.S. citizen, he tried to start a Turning Point chapter at the King\u2019s Academy. But the school demurred, he told me, so he\u2019d founded his regional chapter in Palm Beach Gardens, a city of some sixty thousand people just north of West Palm Beach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Around a blond-wood table, the teens traded stories about how COVID<\/em>-19 had informed their perspectives. As middle schoolers during the pandemic, they\u2019d endured masking, Zoom school, and vaccine mandates. Joyce, as a homeschooler, was a step ahead: her family already opposed all vaccination. \u201cI have never gotten a vaccine,\u201d she said. She asked her friends about the COVID<\/em>-19 vaccine. \u201cAny of you guys got it?\u201d All three said no and quickly pivoted to talking points. \u201cIt showed Charlie\u2019s point that freedom is not free. Authoritarianism is always knocking at the door,\u201d Perisse argued. Suarez Escobar said, \u201cWe\u2019re all about \u2018My body, my choice\u2019\u00a0\u201d\u2014the anti-vaccination movement has adopted the abortion-rights slogan. \u201cBut we didn\u2019t have a choice back then.\u201d As a seventh grader, he\u2019d spoken out at school against the vaccine. \u201cA girl slapped me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The following afternoon, Suarez Escobar invited me to visit the King\u2019s Academy. It was born out of a prayer circle, in 1969, in which a group of evangelical businessmen began to speak about the need for a major Christian school in Palm Beach County. Since then, the King\u2019s Academy, which is dedicated to \u201cthe King of Kings and Lord of Lords,\u201d has come to occupy a sprawling sixty-five-acre campus in West Palm Beach.<\/p>\n

When school let out, at 3:05 P<\/em>.M<\/em>., a line of Mercedes S.U.V.s and Cadillac Escalades snaked around the lot, driven by women in hand-knit sweaters with tousled hair. Gone were the outmoded trappings of evangelical subculture (\u201cThe higher the hair, the closer to God\u201d). Suarez Escobar was waiting for me in the school\u2019s glassed-in entry, along with Alexandra Kravecz, the vice-president of his Club America chapter. She was also his girlfriend. Wearing a blue-and-red plaid uniform skort and carrying a Stanley tumbler bedazzled with the American flag, she led the way across campus, noting, with pride, that Mike Pence was going to be their graduation speaker. \u201cThat\u2019s insane to me,\u201d Kravecz said, gleefully.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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High-school tuition at the academy is at least thirty thousand dollars, and Kravecz was on a partial scholarship from a Christian pre-law-studies program. She took me to a vast mock courtroom at the school, which was wood-panelled and windowless, with a judge\u2019s bench, a witness stand, and a large gallery. Stencilled on one wall was the Preamble to the Constitution. Every year, she had to stand up in the courtroom before her donors and prove to them what she\u2019d learned about the law. She also participated in law and debate competitions against other schools. These events were secular, Kravecz explained, but the King\u2019s Academy kids argued their positions from \u201ca Biblical perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leaving the building, Suarez Escobar and Kravecz settled in the sunshine at a round blue picnic table and talked about their Club America activities. Most of what they did was hand out merch\u2014laptop stickers and tiny Constitutions sent to them by Turning Point. \u201cCharlie Kirk stood up for what Jesus would believe in,\u201d Kravecz said. Suarez Escobar was wearing a navy-blue polo that revealed a Latin phrase tattooed on his right biceps: \u201cAut viam inveniam aut faciam<\/em>\u201d\u2014\u201cI shall either find a way or make one,\u201d a quote attributed to Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who, in the third century B.C.E., battled against the powerful Roman Republic. A few weeks ago, Suarez Escobar texted me to say that he\u2019d decided to go to Florida State University, where Kravecz was also headed. Suarez Escobar was determined to become the president of F.S.U.\u2019s Turning Point chapter. \u201cI have a lot of vision, and I feel like I have the charisma to get it done,\u201d he told me.<\/p>\n

In his view, winning teens over to Club America wasn\u2019t a matter of hammering home statistics. \u201cI don\u2019t force facts down their face, because you don\u2019t really learn from facts at the end of the day,\u201d he said. \u201cYou gotta appeal to people\u2019s emotions.\u201d Suarez Escobar described Kirk as a modern-day version of the Apostle Paul, who spread the Christian message throughout the ancient world in the years following Jesus\u2019 death. He said, \u201cCharlie Kirk reflected Christ in ways I could only imagine doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Kirk\u2019s absence, the Trump Administration has attempted to anoint someone else to legitimatize its Christian bona fides. Pete Hegseth, a Christian nationalist, has served as one of Kirk\u2019s stand-ins, but J.\u00a0D. Vance\u2019s messaging has carried more authority. In May, at a prayer rally on the National Mall, Vance, appearing by video, invoked George Washington, John Adams, and \u201cmy dear friend, the late, great Charlie Kirk.\u201d Kirk believed that \u201call law reflects a morality\u201d and that both law and morality \u201cultimately come from religion,\u201d Vance said. \u201cAnd the morality and religion that formed the American consciousness were decidedly Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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These ideas continued to animate Kirk\u2019s followers, but by the end of the spring semester Turning Point\u2019s influence had waned. At Benjamin, Club America still held well-attended meetings, but the energy had \u201ckind of died down,\u201d Koehler told me. When the chapter first started, he had been so enthusiastic that he\u2019d hoped to become an officer. Not anymore. He felt the same admiration for Kirk, but he\u2019d lost interest in Turning Point. \u201cI don\u2019t see them on my social-media feed, any big campus events,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s less about free speech and more supporting Trump.\u201d And young people were losing interest in Trump, as he saw it. No one wanted more \u201cforever wars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duffy offered more pointed observations. \u201cWith high schoolers, it\u2019s more about what they see on their social media,\u201d he said. Kirk had disappeared from their feeds, and Erika Kirk had gone viral for the wrong reasons\u2014taking the stage at her husband\u2019s memorial service amid pyrotechnics and attempting her own campus tour, undermining her image as a Christian trad wife whose priorities were her family and her home. \u201cThere\u2019s been all kinds of attacks from the left but also from the right,\u201d Du Mez, the historian of the Christian right, said of Erika. \u201cShe seems to lack any kind of authenticity.\u201d Crowds had thinned at recent Turning Point events, and after Erika failed to appear at a University of Georgia rally, citing security concerns, the chapter president resigned. With the MAGA<\/em> alliance strained and conspiracy theories emerging about Kirk\u2019s death, it wasn\u2019t clear who, if anyone, possessed the gravitas to hold Turning Point together. \u201cErika Kirk made it into a joke,\u201d Duffy said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a good look. People don\u2019t want to be associated with it.\u201d (In a text message, Kolvet wrote, \u201cErika Kirk has displayed incredible courage and strength, stepping into an unimaginable tragedy while shepherding Turning Point through the largest, most explosive growth period in its history.\u201d He added that the organization is \u201c100% behind Erika Kirk.\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If Turning Point was to survive, it would likely need to continue moving, as Kirk had, toward a Christian politics. \u201cCharlie Kirk was one of the most open-minded people,\u201d Tucker Carlson told me. \u201cMaybe because of his age, Charlie was absolutely delighted to change his views.\u201d Carlson, who began reading the Bible four years ago and claims he has read no other book since, noted that Kirk took a radically progressive tone in an interview with him last summer. Kirk had fretted about the heavy debt loads of young people and what he described as an \u201ceconomic nihilism that has set into a lot of this next generation.\u201d He saw a solution in the Bible. \u201cOne of the more beautiful teachings is called the Year of Jubilee,\u201d Kirk said. Every fifty years, all debt was abolished. \u201cI know I sound like a left-wing, Elizabeth Warren person,\u201d Kirk went on. \u201cI don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Carlson and I spoke, he proposed that Kirk was feeling his way toward \u201ca Christian economic system.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know that there\u2019s a prescription for it in the New Testament. However, I do know there\u2019s a lot about money and the purpose of it, and it\u2019s to serve other people,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cAnd so I know that whatever we have now is like the opposite of a Christian economic system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Kirk died, Carlson has continued to develop his thinking about Christianity as a blueprint for America. In February, he withdrew his support for Trump, calling Trump\u2019s foreign interventions \u201cnot acceptable for Christians.\u201d He asked, after Trump posted an image of himself as Jesus, \u201cCould this be the Antichrist? Well, who knows?\u201d Carlson told me that he\u2019d never heard of the Seven Mountains Mandate, but he echoes many of the movement\u2019s ideas, saying that Trump\u2019s ability to bend others to his will may be \u201csupernatural\u201d and that the Iran war is driven by \u201cdemonic influence.\u201d Carlson has spoken of his own brush with demonic forces, who left him bloodied and scratched in the night, while his wife and their four spaniels slept undisturbed. He has also used more secular language to describe his fear and disillusionment. \u201cYou vote for a guy who\u2019s wholly outside the political system in order to change the political system, and he\u2019s immediately captured by the political system and becomes its most effective tool,\u201d he told me. \u201cSo what does that tell you? It tells you that politics is not the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Carlson\u2019s view, \u201cpolitics has reached its terminus,\u201d he said. \u201cSo your options at that point are violent revolution\u2014which I think Palantir is going to make pretty difficult to pull off\u2014or spiritual revival.\u201d But though Carlson and many of Kirk\u2019s young followers were moving away from Trump, there were few indications that right-wing Christians were abandoning him. When Trump posted the image of himself as Jesus, Franklin Graham, a son of Billy Graham and the leader of his father\u2019s evangelical empire, defended him. \u201cHe is the most pro-Christian, pro-life president in my lifetime,\u201d Graham wrote on X. Du Mez said she had \u201ca hard time seeing a full parting of ways\u201d between Christian nationalists and the Trump Administration. \u201cWhat they have in common is the realization that majoritarian democracy will impede their goals. And they both need each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As the summer began, Gracie Bell Joyce still missed Kirk profoundly. \u201cThe whole world misses Charlie,\u201d she told me. Joyce, who didn\u2019t like to criticize anyone, was reluctant to call out Erika Kirk, but she said that, as Erika\u2019s credibility plummeted, friends and family members had called on her to leave Turning Point. \u201cThe first thing that came to my mind when everyone was telling me, \u2018Quit, quit, quit,\u2019 was Isaiah 41:10: \u2018Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and uphold you with my righteous right hand,\u2019\u00a0\u201d Joyce said. \u201cAnd so I said, \u2018Lord, if it is not for me, pull me out of it.\u2019\u00a0\u201d But she had received no indication that God wanted her to leave Kirk\u2019s movement.<\/p>\n

Joyce was moving away from MAGA<\/em>, which she\u2019d never really embraced. \u201cI got a hat and a sticker on Election Night, but I\u2019ve never worn them,\u201d she said. She also tired easily of the various voices vying for power in Kirk\u2019s absence. \u201cEveryone hates Nick Fuentes,\u201d she said, of the popular white nationalist. \u201cI don\u2019t agree with Nick Fuentes, but I don\u2019t agree with Taylor Swift, either.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, Joyce has taken to praying over Wild Cargo Pets. \u201cEvery single day before I open up, I put my AirPods in, I put on worship music,\u201d she told me. \u201cAs I\u2019m sweeping and vacuuming and mopping, I\u2019m praying.\u201d She lights a white timber Pet Odor Exterminator candle to mask the scent of fish scales and furry bodies. Then she checks on the three hundred baby chicks the store has for sale, to make sure \u201ceveryone\u2019s alive and kicking.\u201d<\/p>\n

She asks for God\u2019s guidance during her day, and for his protection. The store has received unnerving visitors in the past: one man, after being refused a rabbit, flashed a firearm, which turned out to be a toy. Now that Joyce was praying in the store, \u201cI\u2019ve noticed there\u2019s less chaos,\u201d she said. She was talking to Turning Point about starting an explicitly faith-based chapter. \u201cI really, really, really, really want to do that,\u201d she said. \u201cBut at the end of the day, no matter what happens with Turning Point, I\u2019m still here, unless they take me out.\u201d\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n

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