![]() Kirk is the founder of the rightwing youth activist group Turning Point USA, and Owens is an acerbic Black ultraconservative who revels in the attention that saying outrageous things can bring. Spencer, an excellent writer, spent years attending rightwing conventions and training sessions, tracking the rise of activists including Kirk and Owens as they became familiar figures on Fox News and other conservative media outlets. This is the subject of Spencer’s just-published book, Raising Them Right : T he Untold Story of America’s Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot for Power, a work that combines analysis with on-the-ground reporting. ![]() But people like Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk, and a lot of these other people that you and I have never heard of that our kids know about, these people are created.” ![]() The secret to the right’s success, Spencer told MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle, is its cultivation of superstars: “The Republican Party’s become like a celebrity-making machine, which can be kind of counterintuitive because we think of Hollywood being allied with the Democrats. “We think of these kids as being very lefty,” she said, but this ignores the tremendous inroads that conservatives have made in converting the young. In a recent appearance on MSNBC, Kyle Spencer cited a disconcerting fact: Four in ten of the young people who voted in the 2020 U.S. ![]()
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