PHOENIX—In the final minutes of a sometimes fractious AmericaFest, Vice President JD Vance called for something short of a truce: He urged conservatives not to try to expel each other from conservatism.
“I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or deplatform,” Vance said in his Dec. 21 speech, which capped off Turning Point USA’s first AmericaFest since the assassination of one of the organization’s founders, Charlie Kirk, on Sept. 10, 2025.
In his remarks, which also emphasized the deep roots of Christianity in American life, Vance appealed to Kirk’s own commitment to open dialogue on the political right….