I have to interrupt your weekend, but I think this is important.
Within the Conservative Movement, as in every movement, entangling alliances sometimes make accountability hard. When Group A gives Group B money, Group B does not want to be critical of Group A. When candidates show up on stage at big events and get to fundraise, they don’t want to be rude to the hosts.
Over time, that allows bad things to happen and fester.
Look, if you will, at what has happened to the National Rifle Association over time. It is less effective as an organization and has less political clout at a time we all really need strong Second Amendment organizations. But it lost its focus over time and kept spending on frivolous things. Anyone who raised questions got the boot.
Look at CPAC, which is no longer a conservative conference, but a conference of high-dollar donors given stage access to hang with the Trump Wing of the party. With only a few boundaries, it is amazing how many non-conservatives can access the stage with money. Meanwhile, the American Conservative Union has descended into scandal.
But because of entangled alliances, sponsorships, etc., it is tough for anyone to speak out publicly.
That leads me to Turning Point USA and this week’s antics. You can accuse the Associated Press of a hit job by pointing out the high salaries, lavish lifestyles, and incestuous business relationships a group of twenty-somethings have set up on the backs of their donors. But pay attention to this.
Here is Charlie Kirk strongly implying that Benjamin Netanyahu knowingly allowed Hamas to kill over 1,200 Israelis, behead babies, and take over one hundred hostages back to Gaza in order to expand his power.
Here is Lauren Chen, a Turning Point USA contributor, praising well-known anti-Semite Nick Fuentes for his “balanced and rational” take on the situation between Israel and Hamas. Fuentes has questioned the Holocaust and believes Jews have no place in Western Civilization.
Here is Morgan Ariel, another Turning Point USA employee, attacking Zionism. Here she is attacking Ben Shapiro for being, well, Jewish. Here she is retweeting documented Anti-Semite Jackson Hinkle to, again, attack Ben Shapiro.
Friends, forget all the money Charlie Kirk and other TPUSA executives are making off their mostly retiree donors to fund their lifestyles; we’ve got the leader of Turning Point USA suggesting the leader of Israel knowingly allowed mass murder and two of his employees promoting anti-Semites.
Too much of the Conservative Movement is too entangled together in business and financial relationships to speak up.
But someone has to. This is bad and wrong, and either a course correction needs to happen, or donors need to stop funding anti-Israel anti-Semites on the right.
Right now, staying silent is complicity with evil.
Why Liberals have ended up Cheerleading for jihadism: Israelophobia is just the newest version of the oldest hatred, and it’s being perpetuated by Britain’s Left By Jake Wallis Simons 15 October 2023 •
A business opinion no less in The Telegraph an online UK newspaper. It is hands down the best piece I have ever seen on How, Why, Who has/is perpetrating the continual hate of the Jewish people over the centuries. I have read a lot over the years as have Christian, Jewish, and Muslim friends here & overseas. The persecution as you have mentioned before has a very long history and includes motivators that I missed and connections to various outcomes of each including and how a country or group could start out one way and end up totally against it later. I don't remember if The Telegraph allows a few free reads but not that expensive and seeing how the UK is dealing with our same issues is vary interesting as well.
Anyone ever notice that sudden momentary look of crazy that Charlie has in his show? I wonder if it is a side effect of Nardil, Prozac, Zoloft, Effexor, Wellbutrin, Celexa, Lexapro, Cymbalta or whatever he is taking currently.