Why Does Turning Point USA Keep Pushing Anti-Semitism?
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.
I am truly always amazed at anyone hating Israel and being anti-semitic. Especially don’t understand it by anyone on the right. Maybe they’re jealous? I’m a non-jewish Christian but in my six decades I’ve found the Jewish people I’ve known exemplary. God chose them for His reasons, but He did choose them, and His blessings on them are evident even though they’ve suffered much. I’m proud for them and stand solidly behind them. Anyone espousing antisemitic ideas loses all credibility with me. Still waiting on commentary from Candice Owens....a friend of Ben Shapiro?
Ayn Rand explained this. Producers, looters and moochers. As we have allowed our lazy and looting ruling class to export working class economic opportunity to other countries for the Wall Street returns, while also importing other country's poverty for more Wall Street returns, we have turned the tables on the old standard of productive activities where people actually invent, make, build, grow and fix real products to serve humanity, and they are rewarded in doing so with greater wealth and status... to one where looting from the existing productivity and amassing lots of likes and clicks returns the wealth and status.
Elon Musk obsoletely destroys just about every other billionaire in terms of actual value returned (added) to society. Yet, Larry Fink wields more respect and power in our modern measure of wealth, status and power.
Charlie Kirk is the same as most in the media today... either the collective corporate media or the independent media. Most are looking for loot in their clicks and likes for a niche audience. That is because society and the economy has gone tribal in looking for their own clicks and likes for wealth and status.
Ask yourself this... why didn't Carlie Kirk with all his brain power start a small business that actually makes some products or delivers services needed by humanity in order to gain his status and wealth?
The looter mentality is one of the immoral rent-seeker... not a worry in the world that their economic pursuits are destructive to the whole... as long as cash flows to their bank account. It is like the ambulance chasing lawyer. Destructive, not productive.
If we want to stop the Turn Point USA type of junk, we need to get back to honoring and rewarding achievement that is productive, and discrediting that which is deductive.