From “The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy” by Matthew Boedy
That heir is Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA. Kirk emerged in this role because he has deep pockets and millions of followers. In the last five years he has remade his national political organization to conquer the even mountains. His success forces those previous warnings about Christian nationalism into a different, more alarming perspective. Kirk requires a recalibration because of what he brings to the movement and what he has already accomplished. He and Turning Point have brought the seven mountains movement as close to success as it has ever been.
Kirk began Turning Point in the summer of 2012, just after graduating high school. His origin story about indoctrination in his high school had gone viral that April on the leading conservative news site, Breitbart, and Kirk quickly became a Fox News darling, got funding from major conservative backers, and launched his conservative youth outreach program from his garage in a Chicago suburb. Kirk built Turning Point by hosting debate-style events on college quads where he challenged shy conservative to boldly believe and taunted liberal students with rhetorical fights he never seemed to lose. Kirk went all in on Trump in 2016, and his summits for students headlined by political celebrities ballooned into all-age affairs, with Trump often a guest. The organization’s budgets exploded year after year. Since 2016 Turning Point has raised roughly a quarter-billion dollars.