“If you agree with MAGA 5%, ‘Welcome, come join us.’ On the left if you disagree 5%, they go, ‘Get out of here. You’re a right winger, you’re a fascist.”
Left-wing pundit of The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur, appeared at Turning Ponit USA's 2024 America Fest in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday and sat down to have a conversation with TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk and told the crowd that the MAGA movement is "more welcoming" than the left.
Uygur appeared alongside Kirk and admitted to the crowd of Republicans, "You're more welcoming" and added, "A lot of people on the left know this as well. If you agree with MAGA 5%, 'Welcome, come join us.' On the left if you disagree 5%, they go, 'Get out of here. You're a right winger, you're a fascist."
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View on X"But if you push enough people out, and you guys welcome enough people in, eventually you win the popular vote. That's what I warned them about, and that's what happened, right?" Uygur added.
The Young Turks host received a standing ovation from the crowd as he appeared alongside Kirk to have the friendly discussion.
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He also tried to make an appeal to those on the left that would see him at the event, saying that the MAGA movement is anti-establishment by getting the crowd to boo Mitch McConnell as well as Dick Cheney.
He added that the left also must step away from the establishment, "We need to have a revolt against the Joe Bidens, the Kamala Harrises, and the Hillary Clintons, and now all of a sudden, the Dick Cheneys.”
During the 2024 campaign, Liz Cheney as well as Dick Cheney, who have been seen by many on the left as war hawk figures on the right, supported Kamala Harris for her election bid instead against Trump. This is despite the Cheneys having a history as Republicans.
"The problem is the establishment. They are controlled by the donor class and mainstream media is their marketing arm. They do not do news. They do propaganda."
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