Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest continued its second day in Phoenix on Sunday, featuring a long lineup of well-known conservatives. Some of the standouts Sunday included Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who is currently fighting the results of a botched election in Arizona which resulted in Democrat Katie Hobbs being named the winner, co-founder of PragerU and talk show host Dennis Prager, and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).
The theme of many of the speakers was to stay positive and avoid the negativity and self-centeredness of the left, see the good in the country, and the values and institutions like marriage and children which formed it. Lake’s speech focused on voter disenfranchisement that occurred in her race, declaring, “My pronouns are ‘I won’” and “election integrity is the single most important issue of our lifetime.”
Prager provided the young audience with advice he learned over his years of living. He said the most important thing they need to know about life is “the greatest battle is with you.” The left thinks the greatest battle is with the U.S.; “they think they’re wonderful and the U.S. stinks.” The left praises people for nothing, such as “What a beautiful poop.” In contrast, conservatives believe they have a responsibility to excel. Since his dad told him growing up that he was lazy, he devoted his entire life to not being lazy.
Prager’s second piece of advice was that you can tell who is lying, whether on the left or the right, by who is doing the censoring. “They censor us, we don’t censor them,” he said, noting that the left engages in cancel culture since “they can’t handle dissent.”
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