Turning Point’s Gathering of Conservatives Marked by Both Conflict and Optimism

PHOENIX—A wild and bright spectacle. A marketplace of ideas, not to mention right-branded products. An arena of pundit-on-pundit conflict over Israel and other issues, waged for the era of X threads and Instagram reels. A gathering of young Republicans and America First conservatives suffused with Christian themes. Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025 was many things—and its meaning differed for different people, from the conservative celebrities on stage to the attendees in the stands. The Epoch Times interviewed participants in, and observers of, the conference that rose in Phoenix just three months after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the founder of TPUSA and namesake of the “Charlie Kirk Show.”...