The Conservative Movement Trans Rights Moment.
Charlie Kirk was a gatekeeper, he was the one keeping the conservative movement from dabbling with the Nick Fuentes of the world. After his assassination the flood gates opened and everyone feeling free to engage with him under the guise of unity and "we should be able to debate ideas", and while I'm guessing most of these people are actually looking for clicks they're also afraid of him, more specifically the army of trolls that follows and brigade their comment section, every single engagement was a softball fest, they dare not challenge him, his ideas or his past comments in a meaningful way. While the reality of online politics is clout, engagement and money, those same people are now creating for the conservative movement and the Republican party the same problem liberals and democrats were accused by those same podcasters and influencers to have, an alignment with their radical fringes when the Democarate went all in on Trans Rights. Nick Fuentes is to the Republicans what trans right were for the Democrats, under the same excuse of inclusivity (what conservatives call unity) they are bringing in the fringes into the mainstream, they are creating for themselves the same issue that brought the Democrats down in public opinion. And while Ben Shapiro didn't express it exactly like that, I think that what his AmFest speech was about, you can't include every crazy idea and personality into the conservative movement just because you're friends with someone or just like them personally, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood can be considered a conservative, would TPUSA invite one of them to give a speech at the next AmFest, I think not, because some ideas and personalities can't be included in a movement just because on occasion they might express something you agree with. Despite the applause to Shapiro's speech, I think the damage is done, per Ami Kozak, who was at AmFest, there was an army of groypers running around trolling Jews at AmFest, Myron Gaines and his podcasting partner were allowed into the event despite being denied at first, under Charlie Kirk this would never have happened.