At Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, JD Vance dramatically blurred grief into grievance. In trying to get cheers from the crowd, he turned the death of Charlie Kirk into a rallying cry against “people” who don’t exist.
On Sunday, Dec. 21, Vice President JD Vance took the stage at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix and delivered a half-hour speech. What should’ve sounded like a memorial turned into a mobilization by the end. At the beginning, Erika Kirk floated Vance as a 2028 presidential prospect. By the end, Vance was no longer talking about politics as persuasion. He was talking about politics as retribution.
