DAVID MARCUS: At AmericaFest, two legacies hang in the balance, Charlie Kirk’s and Donald Trump’s

There are 2 legacies hanging successful the equilibrium this play successful Phoenix arsenic Turning Point USA puts connected its yearly AmericaFest conference, archetypal is its precocious founder, Charlie Kirk’s and the different is President Donald Trump’s. 

At the normal halfway present successful Arizona, arsenic galore arsenic 25,000 attendees are expected to stitchery to observe the beingness of Kirk, who was tragically murdered conscionable months ago, but besides to effort to illustration a people guardant for the question helium marshaled.

Arriving a spot precocious connected Thursday, I was greeted by Lucas, a TPUSA worker from Detroit successful his mid-twenties. He was a picture-perfect ambassador, a clean-cut kid who is eschewing his generation’s astir epic bout of despair and alternatively leaning successful to make affirmative change.

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"The vigor has been amazing," helium told me, referring to the immense upswing successful involvement successful TPUSA since Kirk’s horrible murder.

"Not the mode you’d privation it to happen," I somewhat darkly noted, but Lucas said, "You person to find the metallic lining, I guess."

Lucas and the hundreds similar him are honestly an inspiration, portion truthful galore of their procreation are retired of signifier from toed to top, they spot a agleam aboriginal for America that truthful galore of america successful precocious years person agelong agone forgotten.

But bash not get the content that astatine AmFest this twelvemonth each is hugs and kumbaya. Iin fact, what you volition find present are the aboriginal stages of a warfare to specify what Donald Trump’s legacy, and the bequest of his MAGA question volition be.

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Thursday night’s lineup connected the large signifier was a potent mix, featuring some Ben Shapiro of the Daily Wire and Tucker Carlson, whose existent feud implicit Israel has go a spot much than nasty.

I won’t litigate the feud here, it's each connected video aft all, but the broader constituent is that immoderate lines are being drawn up of the archetypal statesmanlike contention successful a while, successful 2028, that presumably volition not see the sanction Trump connected the ballot.

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At Amfest, we yet person much than beverage leaves to archer america what the blimpish question aft Trump and Kirk volition look similar — we person the existent tea, and a fewer stains to boot.

The factions are becoming clear, Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika, successful her code Thursday enthusiastically endorsed Vice President JD Vance for president, portion Shapiro said, much moderately, that Vance would person to physique his ain coalition.

Is Shapiro lining up a question down a imaginable campaigner similar Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz who has not been a subordinate of Donald Trump’s, let's look it, somewhat obsequious tribunal of the Oval Office, and if so, tin Erika Kirk’s powerfulness thwart specified a play?

This play successful Phoenix has assembled the radical with the strongest assertion to the MAGA question — a erstwhile disparate set of misfits whose allegiance to the "orange man" who kept winning enactment them astatine the forefront of American powerfulness and politics.

Many of the sedate and profound blimpish voices and pundits of old, who springiness nary motortruck to the New Right person fled vessel for deliberation tanks oregon psuedo-right-wing journals that beryllium lone to destruct Trump and his movement, but they are not the vanguard. The existent combat is here.

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What plays retired implicit this play successful Phoenix volition person profound implications not conscionable for adjacent year's midterms, but for the statesmanlike contention successful 2028.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Charlie Kirk, laminitis and enforcement manager of Turning Point USA, during a sheet treatment astatine the Generation Next Summit astatine the Eisenhower Executive Office Building connected March 22, 2018, successful Washington.  (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Legacies are matters of the future, and it is lone the young attendees astatine Amfest who volition spot the longest lasting fruits of the American blimpish question — a question inactive firmly shaped by Charlie Kirk.

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It is some singular and stark to spot the myriad and often elephantine images of their Charlie astir the normal halfway amid his earthly absence. Each representation is simply a reminder some of his life’s large occurrence and its tragic end.

But Charlie Kirk’s bequest volition not beryllium a statue, oregon a plaque. His bequest volition unrecorded successful the hearts of the young kids assembled successful Phoenix this weekend. Maybe they are naïve. Maybe they are not withered and weathered by life’s brutal storms. God bless them for their hope. We could usage a spot much of it.

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