Tag: Turning Point USA

Photo via Kanye West / X, 2020

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One of the most important aspects of modern American politics is the desire among a faction of conservatives to ally with African-Americans. This has motivated decades worth of terrible decisions. This includes Turning Point USA’s decision to promote Candace Owens, Donald Trump’s “Platinum Plan,” and repetitive attempts to rewrite history. (more…)

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I listened to the main speeches from Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025 so you don’t have to.

They illustrated several points. First, that a clash between conservatives and nationalists over Trump’s legacy was always inevitable. (more…)

Morgan Ariel, jedna z mnoha internetových komentátorů, kteří v poslední době naskočili na antisemitskou vlnu. (Foto z jejího Instagramu)

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Ještě v dobách největší slávy „alt-right“ (přibližně první polovina minulé dekády, pozn. DP) jsem si nejednou postesknul nad tím, že hnutí až nevyvratitelně spravedlivé je do takové míry obýváno lidmi morálně nepříliš vábnými. Nebyla to jistě celá a dokonce ani většina alternativní pravice, ale stěží jste mohli ujít více než pár pomyslných kroků, aniž byste narazili na nějakého narcistního sociopata, narkomana, zhýralce nebo zástupce jiného z nepřeberného množství protispolečenských osobnostních typů. (more…)

Morgan Ariel, one of many online commentators who has recently jumped on the anti-Semitic bandwagon. (Photo from her Instagram.)

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Back in the days of the Alt Right, I used to lament that a movement whose cause was so irrefutably just was filled with so many awful people. It wasn’t everyone or even a majority of the Alt Right, but you couldn’t walk a few feet in it without bumping into a narcissistic sociopath, a drug addict, a degenerate, or some other type of anti-social personality type.

But what could we do? If one has ideas that will cost one everything if publicly expressed, then it stands to reason that a high percentage of the people willing to express such ideas are going to be those with nothing to lose. (more…)

Charlie Kirk: gone rogue or trying to hijack the dissident Right?

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There have recently been stories about how this or that mainstream conservative commentator is some kind of closet and/or ex-dissident Rightist, or is consuming dissident Right content on the down low. In March, liberals raked Tucker Carlson over the coals after leaked internal text messages revealed that he had read a Takimag article by notorious “Holocaust denier” David Cole and commented favorably on it. And then last month, a hot mic recording of Daily Wire star Matt Walsh surfaced in which he could be heard making “demographics are destiny” arguments about how non-whites would not be able to maintain America’s Anglo-Saxon culture. (more…)

Patrick Casey

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The drama never ends for the groypers.

Nick Fuentes and American Identity Movement (AIM) leader Patrick Casey are hosting a “Groyper Leadership Summit” (GLS) later this month in Florida. The event will take place close to the time of Turning Point USA’s (TPUSA) Student Activist Summit. (more…)

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He advanced to the council-table:
And, “Please your honors,” said he, “I’m able,
By means of a secret charm, to draw
All creatures living beneath the sun,
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Los Angeles, Sunday, November 10, 2019: Charlie Kirk’s Talking Points USA (TPUSA) organized an event at UCLA to promote Donald Trump Jr.’s new book, Triggered. But the event was cut short when the younger Trump, his homewrecker girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Charlie Kirk were heckled offstage – not by Left-wing protesters, but by America First populists. It was glorious.

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Charlie Kirk

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Do you want the Culture War?

Yes?

Then you’re in luck.

The cuckservative student group Turning Point USA’s (TPUSA) “Culture War Tour” is traveling all over the country and igniting a battle its hosts didn’t intend. Rather than pitting the cringe conservatives of TPUSA against campus Leftists, the tour has become a Dissident Right guerrilla war. (more…)

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Everyone loves a good social media implosion.

A good implosion is, among other things, a comeuppance: one where the mask falls at last and a hotsy totsy e-celeb is exposed (more…)

Sohrab Ahmari

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A curious debate erupted within American conservatism last week.

New York Post opinion editor Sohrab Ahmari took aim at Conservative Inc. foolishness, which he dubs “David French-ism,” in a First Things essay. Ahmari, a Persian Catholic convert, argues French-ism makes conservative Christians surrender to the awe-inspiring power of secular liberalism. (more…)

Charlie Kirk at CPAC, where a cardboard flat = truth in advertising

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Another CPAC has come and gone, and national populism was almost non-existent at this year’s conservative gala.

Even though Donald Trump became president on a national populist agenda that challenged conservative orthodoxy on immigration, foreign policy, trade, and state power, CPAC 2019 offered the impression he won on the stale conservatism of Ronald Reagan.

The major themes of CPAC 2019 were the evils of socialism (but no mention of why it’s becoming popular), the sheer awesomeness of Israel, (more…)

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If you’re trying to build a race-blind movement, the scariest thing is for the media to link you to white advocates. You may fear that the mercurial public will write you off as an extremist, causing you to lose momentum.  (more…)