“Donald Trump is not here to save you,” Charlie Kirk told the audience on Friday night, “You have to save Donald Trump to save the country. It’s a big difference. Well, what does that mean? It is tempting and easy to say he’s gonna fight for me, he will. But first you must fight for him.”
Kirk spoke at Turning Point Action’s People’s Convention, set in Detroit one month before the Republican National Convention. The event is different than other political convention because the intention is not to entertain or even to impart a specific message, but to spur attendees to undertake real political action.
Attendees to the People’s Convention experience the same big energy as other Turning Point events, have access to the personalities and pundits that make-up the media ecosystem of the conservative space, but they are not called upon to simply witness, but to take part. Kirk said that the movement is…
