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Charlie Kirk Fires Back At David Hogg For Suggesting Young Men Just Want To ‘Get Laid’ And ‘Have Fun’

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Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk on Monday criticized Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg’s suggestion that young men could be wooed back to his party if it allows them to prioritize having sex and “fun.”

“Young people should be able to focus on what young people should be focused on, which is how to get laid and how to go and have fun,” Hogg said on “Real Time With Bill Maher” Friday. Kirk, on “Jesse Watters Primetime,” said Hogg’s comments were “nihilist” and “dismissive” as young men have much deeper concerns.

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“How nihilistic and also how dismissive of all the concerns that young people are feeling right now. The Democrats the last couple of years — and Hogg is half right about this — they have lost young people, especially young men,” Kirk said. “When I go to these college campuses though, they don’t just want to have more degeneracy or debauchery, they’re looking for something greater, something higher. They’re in the pursuit of something good and true and beautiful.”

The TPUSA founder particularly noted that young Americans suffered under draconian policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Remember, if you’re on a college campus right now, the very young people that we at Turning Point USA are winning over, large in part thanks to President [Donald] Trump, you suffered under the lies and the deception of COVID, of wearing a mask while you shower, of the ninth booster shot, of the hyper-policing of every pronoun and every syllable that you say, and they want something greater than that, not something darker and something that is rooted in a cynical worldview,” he said.

“And David Hogg is so dismissive of young people that want to have a mission, that want to have meaning, that don’t just want to pursue what makes them feel good, but instead young people increasingly want to do good. This is also why we’re seeing young people go back to church,” Kirk continued. “According to Axios, a story just a couple of days ago, church attendance is going up large in part thanks to young Gen Z men. David Hogg is selling a very dark worldview and we are gonna embrace one that lifts people up and one that is rooted in eternal principle.”

Axios published a Saturday piece titled, “Young men are leading a religious resurgence.” The outlet cites Eastern Illinois University political scientist Ryan Burge’s analysis that Gen Z men in particular are outpacing both millennials and some people in Gen X when it comes to weekly attendance of religious services.

“What I think happened last election is younger men — they would rather vote for somebody who they don’t completely agree with, they don’t feel judged by. Than somebody who they do agree with, that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly,” Hogg also said on “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

Over half of male voters under 30 backed Trump in the November 2024 presidential election, a shift from 2020, when former President Joe Biden secured a comparable portion, according to AP Votecast. Numerous college-aged Americans also support the Republican Party over the Democratic Party, according to the Spring 2025 Yale Youth Poll published in April.