Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito said Wednesday a religious revival among the United States’s youth is “here,” adding it’s been growing for the last two years before Charlie Kirk’s murder.

Tens of thousands visited Kirk’s memorial in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday to mourn the Turning Point USA founder. Zito said she’s been covering the “young, Christian revival” happening in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky over the last two years.

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Zito compared this revival to the counterculture from the 1960s, which was “anti-establishment” and a pushback against “post-World War II traditionalism and capitalism.”

“There were some things that came good out of it, like the Civil Rights Act and the equal pay for women. But what it’s left, it was just left when it was adopted, it became center, it became further left as it continued to grab hold of our culture curators and corporations, institutions, academia, and legacy media until it became the status quo,” Zito said on The Hugh Hewitt Show.

“And it wasn’t until COVID and the aftermath of that that young people decided to be the counterculture revolution against that. And I see it incrementally all the time. I look at my landscaper, the woman who cleans my house, the woman who does my hair, all under the age of 30, and they are part of this movement,” Zito said.

Hugh Hewitt compared this current revival to the Jesus People movement in the 1960s, led by pastor Greg Laurie. This movement, adapted into the 2023 film The Jesus Revolution, became a cover story for Time magazine.

Zito said a similar movement to the Jesus People is well underway, saying she sees it “all the time” in areas like the Appalachia and the midwest. She also said the reason this movement isn’t covered by Time or the The New York Times yet is because reporters “really struggle with covering American faith movements.”

OUR COUNTERCULTURE REVOLUTION IS HERE AND IT IS A REVIVAL

“Mainly because, not because they’re bad people, but they just don’t understand it. They don’t see it when it’s right in front of them because it’s not something that has been culturally part of their life or they have rejected along the way,” Zito said.

At Kirk’s memorial, his widow Erika Kirk said she forgives the man suspected of killing her husband. She also vowed to grow the Turning Point USA movement across the nation.