The greatest political organizer of the past 50 years
By Peter Navarro | The Washington Times | September 17, 2025
OPINION:
Charles J. Kirk will go down in history as the most effective political organizer in presidential politics in the past 50 years. His achievement stands out for its scale and difficulty: persuading and mobilizing a generation of voters long presumed to be the Democrats’ natural property.
To understand the measure of Charlie’s accomplishment, it helps to compare him with two of the past half-century’s most consequential organizers: Ralph Reed and David Axelrod. Each built a durable model for political mobilization. Unlike Charlie, however, each also worked with coalitions already inclined to their respective parties.
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