Charlie Kirk's Group Held Its First Post-Assassination Campus Tour Event. It Was Extreme-and Revealing.

"The organization has a lineup of speaker events for what was Charlie Kirk's "Comeback Tour"-now styled "The Turning Point Tour"-that includes sitting governors, U.S. senators, and famous media personalities. It promised to carry on Kirk's legacy. But it remained to be seen if the substitutes, all prominent figures with their own personal ambitions, political incentives, and ideological subcultures, would appeal in the same way as Kirk, a man with more basic right-wing sensibilities who wanted to speak across different conservative factions."

"The event's main speaker promised a unified attack on the "left," from both the group and the broader conservative movement. That means a muscular, militant Christian nationalism-the likes of which we've already seen since Kirk's murder-with major conservative voices and government officials invoking scripture to call for retribution. But in the longer term, it's not clear that unity will hold: The sudden vacuum at the top of the largest conservative youth movement has set the entire right up for a power struggle"

Turning Point USA resumed campus events at the University of Minnesota in its first appearance since Charlie Kirk's assassination. The organization scheduled a speaker lineup including sitting governors, U.S. senators, and prominent media personalities under the rebranded Turning Point Tour. The tour pledged to carry on Kirk's legacy, but many substitutes bring personal ambitions, political incentives, and ideological subcultures that may not replicate Kirk's cross-faction appeal. The first event featured a main speaker promising a unified attack on the left and advocating a muscular, militant Christian nationalism with scripture invoked by conservative voices and officials. The sudden leadership vacuum creates potential for an extended power struggle among competing factions.

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