Can someone explain who Charlie Kirk was?

I'll try to be as objective as possible. Charlie Kirk was a political pundit who founded an organization called Turning Point USA. The mission of this organization was to recruit younger people, usually college aged individuals, into the American conservative movement. His organization was usually invited on to college campuses to hold these debate style sessions, where Kirk would defend and promulgate his positions and ideology. To say that Kirk's views were controversial would be an understatement. He would often times say that women belong in the home and not in the workforce, and they should be subservient to their husbands. He called the Civil Rights Act a "mistake". He claimed that Martin Luther King Jr. was an "awful" person. He also would spread conspiracy theories about the origins of Covid 19. He also claimed that some gun deaths were necessary in order to secure the 2nd Amendment. He also called human empathy a "new age" falsehood. Kirk also was anti-academia, and claimed that college was a waste of time, this despite holding many of his rallies and functions on college campuses. [https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/charlie-kirk-controversies-1.7630859](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/charlie-kirk-controversies-1.7630859) Kirk's organization Turning Point USA was backed by big money donors including the Heritage Foundation, the latter being the architect of Project 2025. Kirk despite being a college dropout, managed to become a figure of significant influence within the conservative movement. To say Kirk was a controversial would be an understatement. It's difficult to tell how much of his ideology was an act and how much was genuine or just trolling. His podcast was part of what the infotainment sphere or influencers like Tim Pool and Steve Bannon, who look as though they're giving you "news", however there's nothing newsworthy about them. They would only serve to give you an opinion, with maybe some news around the edges. It was mostly propaganda. Personally, I always thought he was completely disingenuous and reprehensible. However, that's no excuse for what happened.