California Gov. Gavin Newsom said this week that Democrats should look to the late conservative influencer Charlie Kirk’s outreach to young men as a model for their own party.
In a public conversation with former President Bill Clinton, Newsom said that conservative figures have tapped into young men’s frustrations and mobilized them—including Kirk, who was assassinated during a public event in Utah this month. Newsom said Democrats need to confront what he described as a “crisis of men and boys” both to help those men and to stay competitive in politics.
“Charlie Kirk’s ability, what he was able to achieve in terms of organizing the campuses, engaging these young men, addressing their grievances, giving them some sense of hope that someone cared, that they mattered, that they were seen,” Newsom said. “He was able to produce and organize around that in a deeply meaningful way. And the Democratic Party was nowhere to be found on the issue.”…