来自我们在凤凰城的特约记者的报道——在2025年9月极右翼影响者查理·柯克遇刺一年多之后，他共同创立的组织“转折点美国”（Turning Point USA）的年轻活动家们正在不遗余力地通过动员青年选票来纪念他的遗产，以迎接即将到来的美国中期选举。
From our special correspondent in Phoenix – More than a year after the assassination of far-right influencer Charlie Kirk in September 2025, young activists from the organisation he co-founded, Turning Point USA, are working tirelessly to honour his legacy by rallying the youth vote ahead of the US midterm elections.
在亚利桑那州首府凤凰城郊区的一个凉爽的十月夜晚，一位年轻的极端保守派影响者打开了麦克风，欢迎涌入他TikTok直播间的观众。
On a cool October evening in the suburbs of Phoenix, capital city of the US state of Arizona, a young ultra-conservative influencer turns his mic on and welcomes the viewers flocking to his TikTok live stream.
“哈喽，迪伦，很高兴见到你！查斯，怎么样？感谢大家在管理聊天！”来自亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）的21岁政治学毕业生卡森·卡彭特正在欢迎参加者加入一场题为“自由派与我一对一辩论”的线上讨论。
“Hi Dylan, great to see you! What’s up, Chase? Thanks to everyone moderating the chat!”Carson Carpenter, a 21-year-old political science graduate from Arizona State University (ASU) is welcoming participants for an online discussion entitled, “Liberals debate me one-on-one”.
这场辩论的风格受到查理·柯克的启发，他是极端保守派青年中的领军人物，于2025年9月10日在犹他州一所学院的演讲活动中被枪击身亡。
The style of the debate is inspired by Charlie Kirk, a leading figure among ultra-conservative youth who was fatally shot at a speaking event at Utah college on September 10, 2025.
“TikTok直播不是我最喜欢的东西，但至少能吸引很多人。也有很多网络喷子或攻击我的人，但那是游戏的一部分，”卡彭特带着苦笑说道，并形容自己的立场是“耶稣第一，美国唯一”。
“TikTok live streams aren’t my favourite thing, but at least they bring in a lot of people. There are also a lot of trolls or people who attack me, but that’s part of the game,” Carpenter said with a wry smile, describing his stance as “Jesus First and America Only”.
当晚的辩论话题尤为爆炸：据称2024年，康奈尔大学的一名女学生被七名兄弟会成员下药并轮奸。
The debate topic for the evening is particularly explosive: the alleged drugging and gang rape of a female student at Cornell University in 2024 by seven fraternity members.
当一名网络用户通过麦克风加入讨论时，卡彭特以柯克的风格立即对他发起攻击。
When an online user joins the discussion on the microphone, Carpenter, in the style of Kirk, immediately attacks him.
“你认为在这种情况下，指控者是无辜的吗？”他故意挑衅地语气问道。“我希望能够继承他的遗产。”
“So, you think the accuser is innocent in this case?” he asks him in a deliberately provocative tone. ‘I hope I can carry out his legacy’
卡彭特尔随后指责主流媒体“保护”了受害者。随着分歧的展开，数百名观众在场，交流变得日益紧张。现场直播中，关于轮奸的指控被简化为一系列挑衅性的问题，参与者被邀请在这些问题上站队。
Carpenter then accuses the mainstream media of having “protected” the victim. The exchange grows increasingly tense as the disagreement unfolds before hundreds of viewers. Live on air, allegations of gang rape are reduced to a series of provocative questions, in which participants are invited to take sides.
事实上，在TikTok上拥有约19,000名粉丝的卡彭特尔，如今已经掌握了这些线上对抗的运作方式。他提出有争议的问题，坚持明确的立场，并找到方法让对手处于防守状态。
Indeed Carpenter, who has amassed some 19,000 followers on TikTok, has now mastered the mechanics of these online confrontations. He asks controversial questions, takes assertive stances, and finds ways to put his opponents on the defensive.
他使用的正是极右翼影响者柯克在美国大学校园里通过“证明我错了”概念推广的辩论策略，邀请学生在镜头前挑战他的观点。最具煽动性的片段随后走红网络。
He uses precisely the same debating tactics that far-right influencer Kirk popularised on American college campuses with his “Prove Me Wrong” concept, inviting students to challenge his ideas on camera. The most incendiary clips would then go viral.
作为“大学共和党人”亚利桑那州立大学分会的前主席，卡彭特尔曾与柯克密切合作，柯克是强大的超保守青年组织“转折点美国”（Turning Point USA）的创始人。
As former president of the ASU chapter of the “College Republicans”, Carpenter worked closely with Kirk, founder of the powerful ultra-conservative youth organisation Turning Point USA.
“我认为柯克的遗产就是让人们在面对整个国家时，将思想付诸实践，”卡彭特尔说道，他目前领导着“离线录音美国”（Off The Record USA），这是他共同创立的右翼媒体品牌。
“I think the Charlie Kirk legacy is just making people apply their thought into reality when it comes to the country as a whole,” said Carpenter, who now heads Off The Record USA, a right-wing media brand he co-founded.
“我希望能以他所设想的方式传承他的遗产……我不想说我会为他的遗产应有的样子承担功劳，因为这只能由他和耶稣来决定。”“除了他之外，不会再有第二个像柯克这样的人，”他补充道。
“I hope I can carry out his legacy in the way that he saw it … I don't want to say I would take credit for what his legacy should be, because that can only be determined by him and Jesus. “There's nobody else that's going to be like Charlie ever,” he added.
在TikTok直播的第二天，卡彭特尔离开录音室，前往凤凰城北部的天堂谷公园。他正参加由“转折点美国”组织的“清洁美国”巡回活动，该活动先进行清理工作，随后举办社区节日。
The day after his TikTok live stream, Carpenter left his recording studio to head to Paradise Valley Park, in the northern part of Phoenix. He is part of the “CleanUp America” tour organised by Turning Point USA, which carries out a cleanup effort followed by a community festival.
在凤凰城，柯克于2012年在那里共同创立了“转折点美国”，该节日是当地年轻保守派必参加的活动。
In Phoenix, where Turning Point USA was co-founded by Kirk in 2012, the festival is a must-attend for local young conservatives.
清理工作完成后，参与者聚集在舞台前，有些人仍穿着荧光黄色的背心。虽然氛围旨在营造家庭友好型，但政治从未远去。
Once the cleanup is complete, participants gather in front of the stage, some still wearing their fluorescent yellow vests. Although the atmosphere is meant to be family-friendly, politics is never far away.
参与者分发印有口号“让美国再次清洁”的红色帽子，显然是在呼应美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的口号“让美国再次伟大”。
In a clear nod to US President Donald Trump’s rallying slogan of “Make America Great Again”, participants hand out red caps with the slogan “Make America Clean Again”.
演讲者们祈祷，并反复提及基督和美国民族，而参与者则在歌曲中默默反思。
The speakers say prayers, and make repeated references to Christ and the American nation, while participants reflect in silence during the songs.
柯克本人经常受到敬仰。为纪念他，举行了几分钟的祈祷；一辆贴有他形象和标语“我们人民与查理·柯克同在”的特斯拉Cybertruck停靠在入口附近。“大鞋难填”在舞台上，演讲者们接连发表反动言论。前牙买加骨架雪车运动员、2018年冬奥会参赛者、现为Turning Point USA工作的安东尼·沃森坚持认为，此次活动不是“辩论论坛”，也不是为了“推广任何特定意识形态”。
Kirk himself is frequently honoured. Several minutes of prayer are held in his memory, while a Tesla Cybertruck adorned with his image and the slogan "We the people stand with Charlie Kirk" is parked near the entrance. ‘Big shoes to fill’On stage, the speakers make one reactionary speech after another. Anthony Watson, a former skeleton racer who competed for Jamaica at the 2018 Winter Olympics and now works with Turning Point USA, insists that the event is not “a forum for debate” and that it is not about “promoting any particular ideology”.
但超保守派网红泰勒·夏普则没有那么意识形态谨慎。他戴着“美丽的美国”帽子，告诉观众，堕胎是“我们子宫中孩子的种族灭绝”，并呼吁削减计划生育协会（您需要我来标识这个吗，还是显而易见？）的资金。
But ultra-conservative influencer Taylor Sharp is not so ideologically cautious. Wearing an “America the Beautiful” cap, he tells the audience that abortion is “the genocide of our children in the womb” and called for Planned Parenthood (Do you need me to ID this or is it obvious?) to be defunded.
夏普以类似柯克的精神，在亚利桑那州各校园组织辩论，试图说服学生加入保守派阵营。
In a similar spirit to Kirk, he organises debates on campuses across Arizona in a bid to convince students to join the conservative camp.
如今在Instagram上拥有超过16.8万粉丝的夏普表示，柯克的逝世留下了一个似乎无人能填的空白。
For Sharp, who now has more than 168,000 followers on Instagram, Kirk’s death has left a void that no one seems able to fill.
“柯克是唯一通过文明话语将这一MAGA分歧凝聚在一起的人，”他说。
“Kirk was the only one holding this MAGA divide together with civil discourse,” he said.
“现在我们每天都能看到人们在Twitter上互相攻击。现在这就像一个战争指挥室，而不是保持和平，你知道的，实际上为运动的进步而努力。”的确，在对柯克的悼念之中，MAGA阵营在以色列和反犹太主义等问题上出现了日益增长的分歧。
“Now we have people going after each other on Twitter every single day. And it's like a war room now instead of being peaceful and actually, you know, doing it for the betterment of the movement.”Indeed, amid the tributes to Kirk, there are growing divisions within the MAGA ranks on issues such as Israel and anti-Semitism.
“有些人可以团结，但这需要填补巨大的空缺，你知道的，”夏普承认。“我还没有看到那个人，”他补充道。但并非所有节日参与者都对柯克的继承人持有他的怀疑。
“There's people that can unify but it's big shoes to fill, you know,” Sharp acknowledged. “I just don't see that person yet,” he added. But not all the festival’s participants shared his doubts about a successor to Kirk.
当美国国歌奏响时，26岁的Turning Point USA战略总监丹尼尔·费舍尔单手举着美国国旗，另一只手将帽子压在胸前，肃立致敬。
When the American national anthem was played, Daniel Fisher, 26, a strategy director at Turning Point USA, stood to attention with an American flag in one hand and his cap pressed to his heart in the other.
费舍尔认为，柯克的遗孀埃里卡·柯克——在柯克遇害后立即成为Turning Point USA总裁——是他的自然继承人。当埃里卡·柯克惊喜地登台亮相时，她受到了观众热烈的掌声。
Fisher believes that Charlie’s widow, Erika Kirk, who became president of Turning Point USA immediately after his killing, is his natural heir. When Erika Kirk made a surprise appearance on stage, she was met with rapturous applause from the audience.
但她仅仅讲了几分钟后，就在前来迎接她的与会者的怀抱中崩溃大哭。
But after speaking for just a few moments, she broke down in tears in the arms of attendees who had come to greet her.
自丈夫去世以来，埃里卡·柯克承担起了极高曝光度的角色，她的支持者们赞扬她，而她的批评者则指责她在制造她悲伤的 spectacle。然而，费舍尔对她充满信心。
Since her husband’s death, Erika Kirk has taken on an extremely high-profile role, celebrated by her supporters but accused by her detractors of making a spectacle of her grief. Fisher, however, had the utmost faith in her.
“那是柯克的妻子，我不相信他在选择妻子时犯了错误。我觉得在上帝的支持下，她可以做到不可能的事情，”他说。
“That was Charlie Kirk's wife, and I don't believe that he made an error when he chose his wife. I feel with God backing her up, she can do the impossible,” he said.
然而，虽然这个节日聚集了忠诚的极端保守派支持者，它也试图吸引其通常影响力范围之外的选民。
Yet while the festival rallied committed ultra-conservative supporters, it also sought to attract voters beyond its usual sphere of influence.
22岁的大峡谷大学硕士生黛西·费尔南德斯-埃雷拉就是这样的一个例子。她形容自己是独立选民，并在室友的说服下决定参加此行。
Daisy Fernandez-Herrera, 22, a master’s student at Grand Canyon University, was one such example. She described herself as an independent voter and was persuaded by her roommate to make the trip.
“我对Turning Point USA其实没有太多看法，”她透露，佩戴着印有“清理美国”徽章的胸牌。
“I didn't really have much of an opinion on Turning Point USA,” she confided, wearing a badge emblazoned with “Clean Up America”.
“我听到了很多东西，但我始终对任何一方保持开放，只是想形成自己的观点。我只是喜欢他们在信仰上的目的，像是把社区凝聚在一起总是一种福祉。”
“I heard like a lot of things, but I'm always open for like either side, just like getting my own opinion. I just like their purpose when it comes to their faith, like bringing the community together is always a blessing.
24岁的迈尔斯·杰顿（Miles Jetton），同一所大学的学生，也对集会的宗教层面发表了评论。
Miles Jetton, 24, a student at the same university, also commented on the religious aspect of the rally.
“我确实相信以基督为根基非常重要，因为如果人们的意识形态全部错位，整个国家也会错位。我认为我们已经开始在美国看到这种情况，”他说。
“I do believe that it is so important to have our foundation in Christ because if you have people … their ideologies are all out of whack, you're going to have a country that's all out of whack. And I think we're starting to see that in America,” he said.
对于其他人，如25岁的安吉·佩雷斯（Ange Perez），她走向Turning Point USA的道路始于社交媒体。她是行政助理，也是Young Professionals——该组织专注于年轻人网络交流的分支成员——在浏览YouTube短视频时遇到了柯克（Kirk）。
For others, like Ange Perez, 25, the path to Turning Point USA began on social media. An administrative assistant and member of Young Professionals – the organisation’s branch dedicated to networking among young adults – she came across Kirk while scrolling through reels on YouTube.
“我立刻喜欢上了他的机智、他的智慧、他的辩论能力以及他以事实支撑的有力论点。他是我的榜样，在一个我觉得同龄人信息不足的世界里，”她说。对佩雷斯而言，柯克的影响超越了政治，延伸到宗教。
“I immediately liked his quick wit, his intelligence, his ability to debate, and the strength of his arguments, backed by facts. He’s a role model for me, in a world where I feel that people my age aren’t well-informed enough,” she said. For Perez, Kirk’s influence extends beyond politics and into religion.
“我并非一直是基督徒，但当我听他谈论基督教时，我对基督教产生了浓厚的兴趣。于是我开始去教堂，”她说。
“I wasn't always a Christian, but I became really curious about Christianity when I would hear him talk about it. So then I started going to church,” she said.
“我妹妹邀请我去，之后我决定买我的第一本圣经……如果圣经里的一切都是真实的，而这正是他（柯克）思想的来源，那么上帝的方式就是好的，”她补充道。
My sister invited me and after that I decided to buy my first Bible […] And if everything is true in the Bible, which it is, and if that's where he derived Kirk’s ideas from, then God's ways are good,” she added.
在天堂谷公园（Paradise Valley Park），参与者正收拾东西。摊位逐渐清空，家庭们正返回车辆。对Turning Point而言，赌注已不再局限于TikTok视频和集会：他们必须将支持者动员为实际选票。
In Paradise Valley Park, participants are packing up. The booths are emptying, and families are heading back to their cars. For Turning Point, the stakes now go beyond TikTok videos and rallies: they have to mobilise supporters into votes on the ground.
随着中期选举临近，该组织——声称拥有超过1500个校园分会——正寻求动员其网络，支持共和党候选人。
As the midterm elections approach, the organisation – which claims to have more than 1,500 campus chapters – is seeking to mobilise its network in support of Republican candidates.
在亚利桑那州，该组织正力挺安迪·比格斯——这位立场极为保守的特朗普盟友，他正作为候选人挑战现任民主党州长凯蒂·霍布斯。年轻网红夏普则坚信该州应当朝着哪个方向前进。
In Arizona, it is backing Andy Biggs, a staunchly conservative Trump ally who is running for governor against incumbent Democrat Katie Hobbs. Young influencer Sharp, for his part, has no doubt about which direction the state should take.
“由于凯蒂·霍布斯的治理，亚利桑那州正一步步走向衰落，前景堪忧，”他说道，“她实际上并未为本州做出任何贡献。安迪·比格斯才是唯一能够扭转这一局面的人选。”
“Arizona is on a declining … depressing slope that is going into the ground because of Katie Hobbs, he said. She doesn't actually do anything for our state. Andy Biggs is the only person on the ticket that can actually fix this,” he said.
然而，“转折点”组织的策略并未获得极端保守派群体的广泛支持，甚至连不少共和党人也不买账。部分人士批评该组织推举的候选人立场过于激进，难以赢得温和派选民的青睐。
However, Turning Point’s strategy has not gained broad support among ultra-conservatives, even among Republicans, with some criticising the group for backing candidates who are too radical to win over moderate voters.
此外，该组织还面临另一大挑战：部分年轻选民对特朗普的支持率正在下滑。根据皮尤研究中心10月初发布的一项研究，在2024年投票给特朗普的19至34岁选民中，仅有49%的人在2026年10月仍对其施政表示认可。
The organisation also faces another challenge in the erosion of support for Trump among some young voters. Only 49% of 2024 Trump voters aged 19 to 34 continued to approve of his actions in October 2026, according to a study published in early October by the Pew Research Center.
卡彭特虽是“让美国再次伟大”运动的支持者，但也毫不掩饰自己对总统的失望之情。
Carpenter, though a MAGA supporter, made no secret of his disappointment with the president.
“特朗普不仅在政策执行层面出现了失误，更未能兑现竞选时的承诺，”他说道，“正因如此，Z世代对他的支持率才不断下降。伊朗战争、乌克兰冲突迟迟未能结束，关税政策也未能全面落地，诸如此类的问题还有很多。”卡彭特预计，共和党将在中期选举中落败。
“Trump has made some mistakes with not just the implementation […] but it's not keeping to the promises of his campaign,” he said. “And that's why you've seen Gen Z's support wane, right? The war in Iran, the war in Ukraine not being ended, tariffs not being fully implemented, and a whole slew of other things.”Carpenter expects that the Republicans will be defeated in the midterm elections.
“那些声称共和党能借此机会赢得绝对多数席位的人……根本没有认清美国政治历史的现实，”他补充道。本文改编自法文原版。
“The people that are saying that Republicans are going to somehow win a supermajority … have not sobered themselves up to the reality of political history in the United States,” he said. This article has been adapted from the original in French.