Simon Van Zylenwood

And they loved him anyways because of what he stood for and the power that he had and also that devout persona I talked about.

But he was barely acceptable to them on any number of issues, from immigration to Israel especially, which is a major flashpoint for Gen Z conservatives right now.

And so as you start to get into college Republicans' groups, which I assumed would be kind of the bow-tied, milquetoast-type conservatives, in fact, a lot of them are much more radical than TPUSA, and they're not really hemmed in by this loyalty to the administration that TPUSA is.

This is like a really interesting trope that seems to exist on the right in a way that it doesn't on the left.

And Kirk had a lot to do with it.

You know, Charlie Kirk used to go to colleges and initially he'd do these, they're called tabling or tenting events where he would basically sit at a table under a tent and just have anyone come up to him for one, two, three hours.

What's happened is that there's a whole microculture where kind of Kirk-type imitators will do the same thing.

And so they'll show up on campus.

You know, these are 19, 20-year-old students.

And they'll just organize their own tours.

They'll bring their videographers.

They'll connect with TPUSA or College Republicans Group.

And then they'll get grilled.

What happens at the conservative-leaning colleges is that they end up getting grilled by other Republicans, not leftists.

Because there's not really that many leftists around anyways.

And they're getting grilled from the right.

So that right after Charlie died, there was this guy called Brylin Hollyhand, who's an evangelical Christian who goes to Auburn University.

And he immediately started, it looked like he was kind of trying to take up Charlie Kirk's mantle or even replace him.

So I went to Clemson University, one of the 10 schools that he'd visited, and he got absolutely ambushed.

He was seen as too moderate on Israel because he was too Zionist.