Turning Point USA just completed their annual Young Women's Leadership Summit in Dallas, Texas, which featured conservative speakers like Allie Stuckey, Riley Gaines, Brett Cooper, and TPUSA's own Alex Clark. It was such a big event, even the Washington Post wrote a glowing review.
I think it's meant to be a hit piece, but it reads a lot like a puff piece, depending on your perspective.
Here's what Kara Voght of the Washington Post wrote in a piece titled, MAGA and the single girl,
Perched on a pair of periwinkle platform heels, Clark laid out the tenets of that cultural revolution, one alliterative prescription at a time.
"Less Prozac, more protein!" she said. "Less burnout, more babies! Less feminism, more femininity!"
Clark, whose "Culture Apothecary" podcast for Turning Point vaulted her to the forefront of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement, was articulating her vision for a new conservative womanhood — one that fused its traditional pillars of faith and family with wellness culture.
I mean, should we aspire to more Prozac? This vision for America's future doesn't seem too off the rails or partisan.
The piece goes on,
And what, exactly, is the conservative culture in the age of Trump's second coming? What does it think conservative women should want?
These were the questions facing the roughly 3,000 young women, mostly ages 16 to 26, as they flitted around the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in a smear of pastels and florals — ruffles on their dresses, cowboy boots on their feet, bows on their curls. The aesthetic could be summed up as Laura Ingalls Wilder-core, like if the little house on the prairie had been down the street from a Sephora.
Maybe I'm brainwashed but this event sounds uh-mazing.
Some people might be offended to hear their outfit looks like Little House on the Prairie and Sephora had a baby, but honestly, I think that's the look a lot of conservative ladies are going for.
Look at all these beautiful women having fun and wearing cowboy boots! Oh the horror!
There were the sounds of babies — crying, cooing, nursing — in the background, clutched to the breasts of young mothers who bounced and rocked them in the back of the ballroom.
Odd that there were so many babies, when the title of the hit piece is "MAGA and the single girl." Either there are more conservative single moms than I've been led to believe, or these women are actually living out their stated values of faith, family, and freedom.
And speaking of babies, the writer had a lot of thoughts about Turning Point USA's founder, Charlie Kirk's advice to young women, saying,
Charlie — who, at an event later in the weekend, would tell the women that college is a "scam" but a good place to pursue the proverbial "Mrs." degree — admonished that if they're not married with kids by age 30, the chances of either happening for them will drop precipitously.
As the proud owner of both a B.S. and an MRS, he ain't wrong. I'll let you guess which one of those degrees is useless to me. And statistically speaking, most women do still marry before age 30, but obviously, it's offensive to tell young women the truth.
And while the piece repeatedly refers to TPUSA as a "MAGA youth group" the author does have to acknowledge,
Some of the women wore "Make America Great Again" hats, but only a few. Trump didn't come up much. The focus was on culture, not politics.
Hmm, it's almost as if there's more to conservatism than a red hat.
Maybe it's prairie dresses and cowboy boots, too, because really, we know girls are just here to look cute.
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