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How Charlie Kirk is tricking kids
Charlie Kirk, founder of the right-wing youth group Turning Point USA, used claim he had a “secular worldview.” No longer. These days, he’s a far-right Christian influencer who claims that separation of church and state is a “fabrication.”
On this episode of “Standing Room Only,” we don’t just ask historian Randall Balmer to debunk his lies. We explore how Kirk using these lies to manipulate his young audience — and even turns them toward racism.
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Dartmouth’s Randall Balmer explained why we know for sure that the founders of the American republic very much intended a separation of church and state. But we also had some fun, mocking Christian nationalists who want the Ten Commandments displayed on classroom walls — but absolutely not the Sermon on the Mount.
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