Turning Point’s AmericaFest caps a surreal year in US politics

US politics, with its showbiz patina, stadium concerts and fireworks displays, always seems surreal than Australia, where our politicians have the charisma of particularly forgettable substitute teachers. you look so ridiculous When he attempts the kind of performance that is relatively commonplace in America.

But even by those standards, Turning Point USA’s 2025 AmericaFest conference in Arizona this week nonsense. When Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated in September, calls for immediate revenge from influential figures on the political right against the left, and even against the trans community, became even more baseless.