From “The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy” by Matthew Boedy
Now married and in his thirties with two kids, Kirk is a fast-talking radio host and social media provocateur who operates Turning Point’s sprawling campus in Phoenix, Arizona. You might call him a new Rush Limbaugh. (The famous conservative radio host complimented Kirk in 2018 and suggested that Kirk was “running the White House.” Kirk continues to play that clip at the beginning of every episode of his radio program, which replaced Limbaugh in many markets after the icon’s death.) But Kirk is much more than a leading voice in conservative politics. He has made Turning Point into the indispensable organization for the seven mountains movement. In 2021 Kirk pitched to investors a plan for “seven core outreach programs” that mirror the 1975 list. The plan pointed a dire picture of America, playing off Turning Point’s history attacking higher education, saying the “localized tumor of campus extremism has metastasized” and now threatens “the very life of our country.” It blamed “secular elitists” for funding the left’s “long march through the institutions of our society.”