Turning Point USA’s third annual convention, AmericaFest, opened Friday night at the Phoenix Convention Center featuring headline speeches by founder Charlie Kirk, actress Roseanne Barr, and political commentator Glenn Beck. Kirk told the audience it was their largest conference yet, as well as the largest conservative grassroots multi-day conference ever in U.S. history, with 13,000 in attendance, completely filling the auditorium.
Kirk told attendees that the country is in the midst of a “top-down revolution” led by elites, a cultural revolution that is similar to Mao Tse Tung’s cultural revolution. Those at the conference are the “bottom-up resistance,” the grassroots response.
Kirk said it’s wrong to excuse the elites as meaning well. “The elites don’t mean well, when you have a wide open border and 12,000 people are coming across the border every single day,” he said. “The elites don’t mean well, when they go after our children and they castrate our children in the name of medicine. Our elites don’t mean well when they put the leader of an opposition political party and try to put them in jail for 700 years. These elites don’t mean well. In fact, they hate the United States Constitution. They hate the Declaration [of Independence].”
He lamented that “we’ve allowed them to do this,” because patriots were tending to their families, church, and their businesses instead of focusing on stopping the progressives.
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