Responding to the assassination of 31-year-old conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Chairman of the College Republicans of America William Donahue, 25, wrote, "many of us are realizing that the death of Charlie Kirk is a watershed moment—an event on the scale of [Martin Luther King Jr.'s] assassination."

Expanding on that comment in an interview, Donahue said the reference to King was "meant to capture the magnitude of loss in a social movement, not to equate their legacies, but to suggest that Charlie's death will be remembered as a national turning point, just as King's assassination reshaped the civil rights struggle, this moment will reshape the trajectory of the American right."

Those less familiar with Kirk's work might have seen him as just an online influencer, someone who creat

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