Turning Point USA, an organization for young conservatives launched in 2017 in Phoenix, now rivals CPAC for attendance at its annual December AmericaFest. With over 10,800 purchasing tickets, AmericaFest 2022 launched Saturday evening featuring speeches by TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson, then followed by country music concerts.
Kirk said that TPUSA is the most important conservative organization in the country since it accesses places where there aren’t many conservatives — college campuses. When TPUSA started, 47 percent of young people identified as liberal, he said. Now, that has dropped 13 percent to 34 percent.
He began his speech blasting the “totalitarian Marxist left” which wants “power, control, and submission.” Kirk discussed a recent speech he gave at the University of New Mexico, where “terrorists” tried to cancel him. He said the “paid activists” have a “really pleasant and joyful movement,” and that type of behavior is “why we are going to win.”
“We want kids to be kids again,” he lamented, declaring, “There is no debate about pedophilia, period, end of story.” Kirk said “common sense” is needed, not “a PhD in North African lesbian poetry.”
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