Slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk appears to have had a younger sister with a radically different political worldview.
Mary Kirk, 29, is a Chicago-based art curator who, according to her own social media, is a longtime support of progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders.
“#Tbt to when I met Bernie a year ago and had no idea who he was and now he is the light of my life,” Mary, who is on Facebook under an alias, wrote below a photo of her shaking hands with Sanders in 2016.
At one point, Mary seemed at least loosely aligned with her older brother’s views. In 2011, she was a member of the Wheeling Young Republicans in suburban Chicago—an organization Charlie had once led during high school, according to the Daily Mail.
But by 2015, her politics had clearly shifted. That year, she began sha