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Good morning CPAC!

This is my sixth CPAC which is amazing.
My first CPAC was in 2013. At the time Turning-Point USA was about five or six people strong but for those that don't know Turning-Point USA, we're a nationwide grassroots student activists movement, now present on 1,400 highschool and college campuses across the country.

When we're not growing Turning Point USA every single day I'm traveling the country speaking on college campuses with the great Candice Owens sometimes, I know she's here somewhere. Where's Candice? She's done more to move the black community to conservative values in the last year than I think anyone does in the last 30 years. So  God bless you Candice for what you've done,  totally amazing.

And what we find is that students are not opposed to our ideas inherently, It's that they're not exposed to them at all in the first place. It's that the left has done everything they possibly can to make sure our generation has never heard why America is the greatest country ever to exist, or why free markets are the most moral proven, and effective economic system ever discovered, or why the Constitution is the greatest political document ever written, or why abortion after birth is immoral and should be rejected in in modern and decent society.

They never heard these ideas. And one of the things Donald Trump has done is, he has not changed the left, he has revealed them. This is who they have always been. They have always hated this country. They have always had contempt for our history and what I find is that we as conservatives we say far too often, we want the same thing as liberals. We just have a different way of getting there.

Who's heard this before? I don't want to live in the country that the Socialist Left wants to create. We are not going in the same direction as the Democrat Party. I don't want to live in the country where it's okay to execute a newborn child. That's not the country I want to live in. We do not have different ways getting to the same place. We have two different places that we want to get to and I'm so sick and tired of saying we should give the benefit of the doubt to liberals, and say well they mean well.

They mean well. If you want to fundamentally transform and destroy this country from within, you do not mean well. You do not have good intentions whatsoever. If you want to suppress conservatives from coming on college campuses you do not mean well. If you want to deplatform conservatives from social media you do not mean well. If you want to continue to give five hundred million dollars a year to Planned Parenthood, you do not mean well. If you want to stand against Israel you do not mean well. If you want to keep on giving money to the Palestinian Authority you do not mean well. If you want to give hundreds of millions of dollars to the mullahs in Iran you do not mean well. If you would rather listen to Michael Collins spew lies then applaud the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula you do not mean well. I'm so sick and tired of saying that the Democrat Party and liberals mean well. They do not mean well.

If there's one thing we take away from what this president has taught us is that when we as a movement fight we win. and it seems as if for the last 30 years we've been afraid to fight. And the one fight that brought us together because we took note from the president was the attempted public character assassination of now justice Brett Kavanaugh. When the left when the left did everything they possibly could to destroy a decent man and his family based on 30 year-old lies and we were somehow supposed to dismiss this amazing judicial records because of  something that we had not heard of before now came into public light. 

But we  must understand as we go into the 2020 cycle the left knows that their attacks from the middle are not working. They are now gonna try to attack Donald Trump from within our own movement. They're gonna try to say he did not fulfill his promises. They're gonna try to say he is not doing what he said he is going to do.

If you want to get love from the left be a conservative that attacks Donald Trump. If you want to get on the mainstream networks be a conservative that writes poorly about this president. You want to get published in all the best newspapers be a conservative that attacks the most conservative presidents in our generation because ..,

You must understand those of us  that decides to stand and defend this president, it can be very tough. You will get article after article written about you. But if you want to be loved  you want to get invited to the cocktail parties, you want to get all the right  the complements on tweeter, then sure attack the president. But we as conservative movement should never ever try to appease the left just to be loved. Ever ever we must do it his right, Do what is correct and stand for truth.

This is the most conservative president since Ronald Reagan if not in American history. And he has done everything he said he is going to do.

For years I came to CPAC and I heard if only we had someone that stood up against Iran, if only we could move the embassy, if only we could cut corporate taxes, if only we could have more conservatives on the judicial bench, if only we could deregulate the economy, if only we could rebuild our military, if only we had someone that took immigration seriously, if only we had someone that stood for the flag, if only we had someone that finally called out the relationship between big business and big government and big tech. Folks we have that president and he's fighting for us every single day.

I get asked quite often Charlie what do you see coming from the next generation. And traveling the country and going to these college campuses I could tell you, there's a lot to be concerned about the Socialist Movement is growing, but there's also a lot to be optimistic about.

And the conservative movement that I see growing right now, is gonna be one that understand the left, because if you're a campus conservative out there whether you're part of turning-point USA or all the other amazing organizations out there, and you stay a conservative for four years you understand exactly who the left is. And so I see a conservative movement that will stand for the dignity of all people, unborn, pre born, newly-born, all people.

That's the conservative movement that I see I see a conservative movement that is thankful to live in America, not angry to live in America. I see a conservative movement that stands with Israel. I see a conservative movement that fights the left not the way that they fight us where they punch us in the face, like they did at UC Berkeley. Hayden Williams total hero gets punched in the face because he was tabling for Turning-Point USA with the Leadership Institute, but that fights the left and cultural institutions, that understands as the great Andrew Breitbart said that politics flows downstream from culture.

And if you gave me an option and so would you rather have more control in politics or culture which would you choose and I would choose culture in an instant. Because politics is a short term, culture is long term. And the left has done so much corrosion in our society in the cultural realm, where students are being taught but there's no such thing as objective truth that you are your own truth that there's no such thing as right and wrong, you can create your own right and wrong. And this stems from the universities. And for years I tried to warn the conservative base that there was going to be a socialist under the age of 35  that's gonna come to Congress. and is
gonna try to make these ideas mainstream and some people then they kind of laughed at me.

Well, they're here and there's more than one of them. Because what happens in Congress, what happens on campus will soon come to Congress. College campuses are a harbinger of things to come. College campuses can tell you they're the leading indicator of exactly the ideology and the viewpoints that will soon be held mainstream in media pop culture and in Congress.

And so what we do the fight that I've decided to engage in is one that will either make or break Western civilization. Because our generation the next generation Generation Z, we have a generation that has contempt for America, it doesn't matter if they want high or low taxes. If we have a generation that hates this country that believes that we're racist misogynistic and homophobic it doesn't matter all the rest is irrelevant. And if you think you're oppressed because you live in America you're wrong. You have to be taught that you're oppressed if you think you're oppressed because you live in America.  

And so folks in closing I'll say this. We have one of the greatest blessings ever to be living in this country at this time. There's a culture war brewing right now and it's a culture war different, it's a different one from the 80s and 90s. It's one fundamental question what is America. Is America a place for victims or for victors? Is America a place where you can achieve your dreams or dwell in mediocrity? Is America a socialist place or is America place that embraces freedom and is a refuge for those that have fled totalitarian marxist dictatorships?

That will be the question of the 2020 election. It will be the most important  culture war in American history. And we will win.
Thank you guys so much It was a pleasure! Thank you
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