Charlie Kirk took to his podcast on Wednesday to call out the Republican Party for not being as conservative as their base, compared to the Democratic Party which can sometimes be even more left-wing than their liberal base.
Kirk played a clip of Joy Behar in which she commends Chris Christie for being a “champion to the left right now” because he has “told the truth about Donald Trump.”
“So when they asked you, ‘would you vote for him,’” speaking to Christie, she continued, “Why were you hesitant…in raising your hand, the others all raised their hands, even after we know that he has committed all these crimes, that he is an insurrectionist, that he is trying to overthrow this government. And yet they said they would vote for him.”
You can hear Christie chuckling in the background.
"One of my short term projects," Kirk said in response, "is to try to get the Republican Party as conservative as its voters. The Democrat Party is actually in lockstep with their progressive base."
Kirk pointed to open borders, “transing kids,” and allowing (even encouraging) their genitals to be mutilated before puberty as examples of "wins" in the left’s eyes.
“They're all in and their base is happy. They're actually even more liberal than their base at times. Why is the Republican Party not as conservative as the conservative movement?”
He moved to an example of historically Republican voting states such as Wyoming and Oklahoma funding left-leaning universities where drag culture is encouraged and DEI is enforced.
“Does the University of Massachusetts or the University of California have right-wing influences? Of course not. Because we as a conservative movement are weak. We just are. We're getting better."
Kirk reverted back to the University of Wyoming example, reminding his audience that when Senator Lummis spoke at a graduation ceremony and stated that "there are only two biological sexes," she was booed off stage. The school later made a statement denouncing the senator and apologizing.
“The [Wyoming] legislature should have responded and said ‘we're cutting all your funding, we're done. Good luck, go raise it on your own. We're shutting down the university for treating a US senator that way.’ But we don't think that way. Because…one of the reasons why the country is in the place that it is, is because our party, our movement is full of Chris Christie's and Mike Pence’s.”
Kirk likened Christie to a Democrat. He reminded his audience that he does not consider himself a Republican, but an American patriot, a constitutionalist. Kirk is registered as Independent.
He continued to his viewers, “I want to see an opposition party that wants to win as bad as the Democrats want to win. We need a massive change. And it's not you. This is the issue; is that you are demanding the right things, you in the audience are conservative, you in the audience are informed, you in the audience are engaged, your leaders are not.”
Kirk called for change starting with grassroots initiatives to take over the Republican Party and elaborated on how to defund liberal Universities in conservative states with that power.
“If you think things inevitably will get better. If you think that all of this will calm down, then you are more likely to kind of just turn it off and just hope, hope, hope it gets better. No, sometimes you have to metaphorically storm the beach. It takes acts of courage. Sometimes you have to be obedient, virtuous and courageous.”
Kirk concluded, “We are not a movement that is being led by people that are courageous. We are being led by Vichy French Republicans. Sometimes you have to make the enemy back off, and then stand up for yourself and retake the terrain. I know that's the moment we're building at Turning Point. It's about time the Republican Party starts to reflect its voters.”
