Charlie Kirk Warns CPAC: College Campuses Are the Battleground for America's Future and Bernie Sanders

[00:00] on the main stage please welcome charlie

[00:03] Kirk

[00:22] thank you

[00:24] hello CPAC it's great to be here special

[00:29] thanks to Matt slap and Dan Schneider

[00:31] and the CPAC team for putting on another

[00:34] terrific event it is an honor to be here

[00:36] with so many freedom fighters from all

[00:38] across the country it seems they keep on

[00:40] finding ways to make this room get even

[00:42] bigger and bigger every single year I

[00:46] visit college campuses so you don't have

[00:48] to you're welcome I come with a warning

[00:58] and some insight what I see on college

[01:05] campus is every single day is no

[01:08] different than what's happening in the

[01:11] Democrat primary right now which is we

[01:14] have volunteered and since our next

[01:19] generation to installations and

[01:22] indoctrination to teach the next

[01:24] generation to hate our country and so I

[01:27] hear people all the time they say how on

[01:29] earth could a Bolshevik could a

[01:32] breadline advocate could a Marxist be

[01:35] leading the Democrat primary and I say

[01:36] have you visited a college campus at all

[01:38] in the last 20 years and what I see

[01:42] every single day are students that are

[01:44] being taught that our country is racist

[01:46] and bigoted and homophobic and backwards

[01:49] and they're being taught nothing but

[01:50] negatives about the greatest country

[01:52] ever to exist in the history of the

[01:54] world now there's a lot of positives I'm

[01:56] here to share with you today Turning

[01:58] Point USA is now on 2000 high school and

[02:00] college campuses across the country and

[02:03] as of today our students for Trump

[02:08] organization our sister organization has

[02:10] more affiliated chapters in groups than

[02:13] students for Bernie Sanders so

[02:18] but I come here with a warning because

[02:20] what I see on college campus is when I

[02:22] see happening on universities across the

[02:24] country I push back when people say well

[02:28] there's no way that Bernie Sanders could

[02:29] become presidents no he could win and I

[02:33] want every conservative activist in this

[02:35] room to get your laughs out of the way

[02:38] and get the mockery out of the way and

[02:40] then get deathly serious because we

[02:42] should not do with the lefted in 2016

[02:45] and dismiss an outsider populist

[02:48] candidate from thinking that person

[02:49] can't win the White House because as the

[02:52] great Andrew Breitbart taught us

[02:53] politics flows downstream from culture

[02:56] and if we're honest with ourselves we've

[02:58] been losing cultural last 20 years when

[03:00] losing in the media we've been losing in

[03:02] Hollywood have been losing in academia

[03:04] and all it's gonna take for the left to

[03:06] do is to boost turnout even higher on

[03:08] university campuses they're now putting

[03:10] all sorts of different measures to allow

[03:12] to try to get more and more left-wing

[03:14] students to embrace Marxism and to do

[03:18] same-day voting and I'll tell you right

[03:19] now that if the left is successful

[03:23] the college campuses are gonna be the

[03:25] battleground for this election and for

[03:27] the next generation and so here's what

[03:28] people say all the time with Charlie

[03:29] what can I do

[03:30] college campuses I don't really deal

[03:32] with it every single day well here's the

[03:33] first thing for every single person in

[03:35] this room please unless you went to

[03:37] Liberty University or Hillsdale

[03:39] Liberty's a great college stop giving

[03:41] money to your alma mater stop it

[03:43] cut them off they do not need your money

[03:46] these universities are indoctrinating

[03:55] the next generation around ideas of open

[03:58] borders and Marxism and where senator

[04:01] Sanders gets his base is a limitless

[04:05] supply of millions and millions of

[04:07] students that are entering our

[04:08] university system and they're being

[04:10] turned into activists and people say

[04:13] well where did this shift happen how did

[04:15] this happen well 30 years ago

[04:17] we beat communism and we brought down

[04:20] that Berlin wall but the calm we beat

[04:23] communism in Europe but then communism

[04:26] just came straight on our college

[04:27] campuses and it came into our school

[04:29] boards and that's

[04:30] second thing people say charlie what can

[04:31] I do because I want CPAC to be a place

[04:33] of action or a place where people make

[04:35] decisions to do something the left has

[04:38] continually and routinely taken over our

[04:40] school boards all across the country and

[04:42] if every single conservative in this

[04:44] room got as involved in school board

[04:46] races as we do with national elections

[04:48] our country would be in a much better

[04:49] place with getting involved in what

[04:51] they're doing at our textbooks getting

[04:53] involved what they're doing at the very

[04:54] elementary local level 'no sand the

[04:56] third thing that people can do as they

[04:58] say

[04:59] does your kid actually need to go to

[05:01] four-year college does i'll tell you

[05:04] going to some of the quote-unquote best

[05:06] schools in the country and visiting them

[05:08] i would not send anyone that I care

[05:10] about to those schools unless you are

[05:13] willing to play Russian roulette with

[05:14] their their values we need to ask our

[05:17] high school seniors hey why are you

[05:19] going to college not where are you going

[05:21] to college

[05:22] we need more plumbers and well there's

[05:24] electricians in HVAC and policemen and

[05:26] firefighters and veterans and we need

[05:31] far less people that are hyper educated

[05:34] in the humanities and communications in

[05:36] psychology but they know everything

[05:37] possible about why America is a flawed

[05:40] country and it seems as if they're

[05:42] they're the ones that can't find that

[05:44] are so unhappy and unsettled and they're

[05:46] saddled with student loan debt and so

[05:48] every single person in this room has to

[05:50] understand that higher education is the

[05:53] cartel of the colleges is that they

[05:56] exist using our taxpayer funding taking

[05:58] the minds and futures of our young

[06:00] people as a way to not just continually

[06:04] keep their power structure that a

[06:07] certain status quo but also to create a

[06:09] future political base of left-wing

[06:11] democrat activists and so as

[06:13] conservatives we have to ask ourselves

[06:15] the question if we know for certain that

[06:18] there indoctrinating the hearts and

[06:21] minds of the next generation if we know

[06:22] for certain that 95 percent of

[06:24] professors in higher education are

[06:26] self-identified left-wingers why is it

[06:28] that we continually send our most prized

[06:32] possession the most prized possession in

[06:35] our country is our young people and we

[06:37] send them to these universities we

[06:39] wonder well I wonder why senator Bernie

[06:41] Sanders is doing so well and I

[06:43] telling you right now I'm gonna do

[06:45] everything I possibly can to make sure

[06:47] that this president gets reelected

[06:48] everything I possibly can however when I

[06:54] go to these campuses I see a preview of

[06:58] where America is heading whatever

[07:01] happens on college campuses will soon

[07:03] happen in the halls of Congress

[07:05] Alexandria Kazuya Cortez and Rasheeda

[07:07] Talib and I Anna Presley in Olano Mar

[07:10] they are a harbinger for things to come

[07:12] they have bitter resentment for the

[07:15] greatest country ever to exist in the

[07:16] history of the world

[07:18] the leading Democrat nominee has nicer

[07:21] things to say about literacy in Cuba

[07:23] than the heroic history of the United

[07:26] States of America we have a dictator

[07:28] apologist that is the frontrunner the

[07:30] Democrat Party that is only possible

[07:32] when you lose the cultural institutions

[07:35] and so when I speak to conservatives

[07:37] this is my very clearly would the left

[07:40] continually send their kids to college

[07:42] if they ended up being conservatives of

[07:44] course not they would reconsider it in

[07:47] fact they would probably say we're not

[07:48] sending our kids here anymore we're

[07:49] gonna build our own institution that's

[07:50] exactly actually what they did they took

[07:52] over our university system they took

[07:54] over our education system at a

[07:55] fundamental at a fundamental level

[07:57] that's also why I'm a huge advocate for

[07:58] school choice and the left cannot and

[08:01] will not be able to argue for school

[08:03] choice in our country from I believe

[08:05] that the more that we're able to

[08:08] challenge the true cartel which is the

[08:11] National Education Association and the

[08:13] American Federation of Teachers unions

[08:15] and what they've done to the hearts and

[08:17] minds of the next generation and not

[08:18] allow specifically minority communities

[08:20] to be able to get hire to get a higher

[08:23] access to education is immoral and it is

[08:25] wrong and the more that we challenge the

[08:27] teacher unions and unions in this

[08:28] country the more we're gonna find

[08:30] success but I'll tell you a senator

[08:33] Sanders or whomever they nominate but

[08:35] it's looking increasingly likely like

[08:36] it's senator Sanders we're presented

[08:38] with an opportunity every election has a

[08:41] question of what exactly that that

[08:43] election is about this election is going

[08:45] to be a referendum on what is America is

[08:49] America a mediocre socialist welfare

[08:54] Marxist country of course not

[08:56] country of victims or are we a country

[08:58] of victors are we thankful that we live

[09:00] in America are we angry that we live in

[09:03] America and at the elemental level of

[09:05] why the left is doing what they're doing

[09:07] and why students are showing up in such

[09:09] high numbers for senator Sanders I get

[09:11] the question what Charlie doesn't make

[09:12] any sense he's he's 78 years old why is

[09:14] he exciting young people so much I say

[09:16] he's exactly like the intro professor to

[09:21] how to hate America 101 he speaks like

[09:23] that professor he kind of looks like

[09:25] that professor he's equally as angry as

[09:27] that professor and he presents himself

[09:30] as the crusader against everything that

[09:34] is wrong and that is unjust in our

[09:36] society it's the little guy against the

[09:37] big guy when in reality everything he

[09:40] stands for is the exact opposite he

[09:42] stands to make government more powerful

[09:44] he says that government is bought and

[09:46] paid for by the wealthy the few and the

[09:47] well-connected well then why senator

[09:49] Sanders would you want to make that very

[09:50] government more powerful why would you

[09:52] want to give more money to that

[09:53] government why would you want to give

[09:54] our guns to that government why would

[09:56] you want to give our healthcare to that

[09:57] government why would you want to give

[09:58] our education system that government the

[10:00] same government that he says is wealthy

[10:02] that is tube that is bought by the

[10:03] wealthy few in the well-connected and

[10:04] the lobbyists class is the power

[10:06] structure that he's only going to make

[10:08] even more powerful if he is elected and

[10:11] so we're presented a choice where we

[10:13] have been given a gift I truly believe

[10:14] this from God when President Trump won

[10:17] that election in November of 2016 and we

[10:21] have the results the show for it let us

[10:23] not forget Cavanaugh Gorsuch 170 Circuit

[10:27] Court judges Louis ever black

[10:29] unemployment Latino unemployment Asian

[10:31] American unemployment 10 million

[10:32] Americans off food stamps energy

[10:34] independence VA Accountability Act right

[10:36] to try prison reform kasam Salamone is

[10:39] dead al-baghdadi is dead the embassies

[10:41] in Jerusalem Golan Heights are

[10:43] recognized he spoke at the March for

[10:44] Life now twice we've cut planning the

[10:46] funding of Planned Parenthood America is

[10:49] in a renaissance period once again we've

[10:51] been given a gift from this

[10:52] administration and what they have done

[10:54] however the dichotomy has never been

[10:57] more clear that you have one side that

[10:59] wants to fundamentally transform one of

[11:02] the greatest blessings that God has

[11:03] given his children and that is this

[11:05] country and I do believe that if we if

[11:08] we do our job we can't it's

[11:10] even be closed by the way the fact that

[11:12] this election might even be closed is an

[11:14] indictment of how far we have allowed

[11:16] our culture to go but I'm telling you

[11:18] that where this where the future of

[11:20] whether we're gonna be a Free Republic

[11:21] in a constitutional republic or whether

[11:23] we are going to be a failed socialist

[11:25] experiment it's happening right now in

[11:28] high school and college campuses those

[11:30] are the battlegrounds of the heart and

[11:32] hearts and minds of tomorrow and so what

[11:35] we are doing every single day and what I

[11:36] know all of you are equally as

[11:37] passionate about to fight for that next

[11:39] generation to be able to convince them

[11:41] is in my opinion one of the most

[11:44] important endeavors in the entire

[11:45] country and I'll tell you this is

[11:47] exactly why senator Sanders goes to

[11:49] college campus after college campus but

[11:51] opposite of what the media might lead

[11:53] you to believe

[11:53] president Donald Trump has empowered a

[11:58] resurgence of conservatism on college

[12:01] campuses across the country the exact

[12:03] opposite of what the media might lead

[12:05] you to believe I'm gonna tell you why

[12:07] the Republican Party of Mitt Romney

[12:12] correct answer by the way

[12:14] correct every time his name is mentioned

[12:17] you should respond that way because he

[12:20] lied to every single person in this room

[12:22] that knocked on doors for him that made

[12:24] phone calls for him that donated his

[12:27] campaign because we thought that he was

[12:30] going to be a crusader against the

[12:32] Marxist president that preceded Donald

[12:34] Trump and now he asks and he begs for

[12:36] the endorsement of Donald Trump for the

[12:38] Senate Utah and then he goes in votes

[12:39] for that sham unconstitutional

[12:41] impeachment

[12:45] he embodies the very same political

[12:47] class that President Trump ran against

[12:49] but the party of Mitt Romney was a party

[12:51] that did not fight it was a party that

[12:54] wanted to preserve the ruling class it

[12:56] was a party that did not give the next

[12:59] generation confidence and courage and

[13:02] conviction to stand for what is correct

[13:04] and I can tell you when students on

[13:06] college campuses wear those beautiful

[13:08] make America great again hats and I'll

[13:11] tell you if you want to be a rebel on a

[13:13] college campus wearing a Bernie Sanders

[13:17] shirt will get you thumbs up high-fives

[13:19] and invites to all the coolest parties

[13:20] you want to be a rebel wear that hats on

[13:23] a college campus you want to see what

[13:26] true rebellion is try walking around

[13:30] Brown Yale Princeton Stanford UCLA with

[13:32] that hat

[13:33] but I'll tell you finally we have a

[13:35] president that understands the seven

[13:37] mountains of cultural influence finally

[13:39] we have a president that understands the

[13:40] significance of standing yes I'm going

[13:43] to use a term in solidarity with the

[13:46] grassroots activists of our country

[13:47] that's that see that college

[13:49] conservatives are under attack and

[13:51] president Trump courageously signed a

[13:54] historic executive order to protect free

[13:57] speech on college campuses across the

[13:58] country there's a year ago at CPAC he

[14:01] made that announcement one of the most

[14:04] important executive orders that he has

[14:05] signed in his presidency and so America

[14:09] has a choice the left we know exactly

[14:12] where they're going to go however as we

[14:15] look into this election and even in

[14:17] selections to come we have to ask

[14:19] ourselves a question as a conservative

[14:20] movement are we going to revert back to

[14:22] the party of the status quo ruling class

[14:24] of Mitt Romney of open borders making

[14:29] China continually get rich and just

[14:31] being a technocratic governing ruling

[14:33] class or are we going to learn from what

[14:34] I call the magadh doctrine the magg a

[14:38] doctrine which is a doctrine of American

[14:40] renewal revival one that America is the

[14:43] greatest country in the history of the

[14:44] world

[14:44] one of American sovereignty that

[14:46] believes in the working class a

[14:48] conservative movement that believes in

[14:50] people that shower before work and after

[14:52] work a conservative movement that is not

[14:55] afraid to challenge the tech companies

[14:57] Hollywood

[14:59] Media not afraid to challenge the cartel

[15:02] of the colleges that's a conservative

[15:04] movement that's going to represent the

[15:06] people not the Washington DC political

[15:09] ruling class and that is a conservative

[15:11] movement that will win in November as we

[15:13] go up against socialism so in closing

[15:18] every single one of you play an

[15:21] extraordinarily important role the

[15:23] president is going to get attacked in

[15:25] ways that we cannot imagine from now

[15:27] till November they will make up

[15:29] narratives manufacturer stories and

[15:30] they're already beginning it in ways we

[15:32] could never imagine they've already

[15:34] tried to impeach him they spied on his

[15:36] campaign pathological resistance are 14

[15:39] minutes after his inauguration culture

[15:42] will get this president reelected

[15:45] culture will win back our country

[15:47] college campuses are the battleground

[15:50] for the hearts and minds for the next

[15:53] generation I'm gonna keep fighting on

[15:54] them from now to November I know every

[15:57] single one of you and do what you can

[15:58] and we will get this president reelected

[16:00] and take back this country thank you

[16:02] thank you so much everybody thank you

[16:05] [Applause]

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