I was obviously a fan of the 31-year-old conservative political activist who captured the hearts and minds of millions of college kids and built Turning Point USA into a potent force that helped put Donald Trump back in the White House.

But my daughter Ashley, 42, was much more familiar than I was with Kirk’s political and cultural message that stressed old-fashioned family values, Christian faith and reasoned debate with his ideological enemies.

A mother, a Catholic school teacher and the wife of an LAPD officer, Ashley was hit hard by the murder of a good young man she feels was the conservative voice of her generation – the digital generation.

By Ashley Reagan

My generation and I learned a lot about politics from Charlie Kirk.

I was first drawn to the baby-faced conservative during Trump’s first election in 2016. I never saw him in person, but I followed him on social media and almost every time he visited a college campus I watched on YouTube.

You could always tell he deeply believed what he was talking........

© Yuma Sun