Charlie Kirk: Ruling Class Doesn’t Understand How COVID Killed Their Credibility With Young People
This week on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Charlie Kirk argued with CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin about the anti-elite fervor among young people.
CHARLIE KIRK: You know where I’m going with this. We did not receive any apologies from the ruling class that lied to us repeatedly during COVID. The lockdowns, the efficacy of the vaccine, the mask mandates, school closures, and we just act as if it didn’t happen. And I don’t think the American ruling class understands the undermining of their credibility that happened when the entire country had their lives thwarted, especially young people. We’re just supposed to, like, reopen the country and be like, well, why don’t you trust us anymore? Well, it’s because all you- Oh, yeah, the Hunter Biden laptops, Russian disinformation, 50 Intel operations signed this letter. And you know I’m making a good point here, because there was no contrition from- JOE KERNEN, CNBC HOST: That’s just one example. KIRK: And again, I could go one after the other. ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, CNBC HOST: Look, no, no. I would say that actually COVID, to me, I mean, this is actually generational, is actually very much like the 2008 crisis, in a way, that spawned Occupy Wall Street. This has sort of spawned a different sort of political movement. JOE KERNEN: Do you want to do Russian collusion? Do you want to do the laptop? Do you want to do- I mean, take your pick on the way things are covered in this country. SORKIN: All I’m suggesting, though, is this full-on, constant re-litigation of what took place in the past, as opposed to a clear-eyed view of what’s happening now. KIRK: I would just interject, respectfully, that it’s not just re-litig — first of all, no one was held accountable, largely, for what happened. SORKIN: That’s why I said it’s sort of like 2008, because a lot of people thought all those bankers were supposed to go to jail, frankly. KIRK: And honestly, there should have been — I think there should have been some administration of justice. That’s a separate issue. I was young at the time. I can only speak about what we’re living through now. And a lot of the COVID injustices we are still seeing today, with younger people and their ability to own homes, with the inflation that President Trump is trying to fix that was inherited by Joe Biden. So what I’m getting at, and I know a lot of the C-suite of America watches this program, they might not understand, where is this populist fervor coming from? Is that you have missed the mark on so many of the core proclamations you made to the American people.
