Celebrating all things Trump, conservative students (metaphorically) gave the finger to political correctness and socialism.
When, as an 18 year old, Charlie Kirk founded an organization called Turning Point USA, it described itself as a ''conservative non-profit" group with the overarching goal of organizing young conservatives politically. It was at the Republican convention in Tampa that Kirk met megabucks GOP donor Foster Friess and persuaded him to fund the fledgling organization. That was the convention that nominated milquetoast Mitt Romney for president.
But this party, now, is not the party of Reagan. That's long gone. As the rapturous welcome they gave Trump at his nearly two-hour speech on Tuesday shows, these kids are not young Reaganites, they are Trumpkins through and through. They are not Young Americans for Freedom, the conservative youth group that has existed for decades ; these are the kids of Turning Point USA. And in Kirk's view, echoing Trump yesterday, they are the future.
Any GOP president or candidate would say that, of course. But for the audience, it's a chance to flash a metaphorical finger at the Democratic candidates, who are dangling free college education in front of people just this age. What about race—potentially Trump's deepest vulnerability next year? One young man concedes that the president probably shouldn't have urged the four progressive congresswomen—aka the"Squad"—to"go back" to where they came from . But he doesn't believe Trump's a racist. ''They have no issues to run on so they call him a racist. I've been called a racist too,'' says the 17 year old, ''simply because I'm a Trump supporter.
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