SIO446: Believe It Or Not, The Right Has An Effective Youth Movement

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Thomas Smith

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🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Author and journalist Kyle Spencer knows - she wrote the book on it. It's called Raising Them Right, soon to be out in paperback. She spent extensive time with Charlie Kirk, among others, and saw how he built an effective right wing youth movement. How did he do it? Who is funding it? Do these people really believe what they say? She answers those questions and more.

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0:00.0	And the Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 446 I'm your host Thomas Smith and
0:20.9	got a great interview for you today.
0:24.0	Kyle Spencer is a reporter who has tracked the right and specifically Charlie Kirk
0:29.6	and Turning Point USA and Candice Owens, that kind of cadre of assholes.
0:37.0	And she's done amazing work.
0:39.4	She has a book called Raising them Right.
0:41.6	The subtitle is The Untold Story of America's Ultra Conservative Youth Movement
0:45.6	and its plot for power.
0:47.0	Really fascinating stuff.
0:48.4	As much as I think we'd all love to imagine that being right wing is something that is for older
0:53.7	boomers and stuff that's just you know it's not true it does skew a little that way
0:57.8	but it's not as true as we would like it to be there are very young kids who are
1:02.4	extremely right wing who are into this stuff and
1:05.0	Kyle Spencer has done a lot of really good reporting on how that happened and
1:08.8	we're gonna talk about it today I'm excited to get over to it as usual after this ad break unless you are on
1:13.4	Patreon.com slash serious pod so please consider supporting the show
1:16.7	skipping the ads and getting that warm fuzzy feeling that you are making this
1:21.0	show happen thank you so much to our patrons at patreon.com
1:24.4	slash series pod. All right after this break we'll get to the interview with
1:27.4	Kyle Spencer. Kyle Spencer welcome to the show. It's good to be here
1:31.2	Thomas. Yeah we're so excited.
1:33.0	There couldn't be more going on.
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