It is Time to Rebuild an American America

by Thomas Reiner, Quartz Mountain Commentary, ©2025

(Dec. 23, 2025) — Turning Point just concluded AmericaFest 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona and its 31,000 attendees are returning home to every State with enthusiastic hope, ready to fight for Conservative and American ideals. It was an amazing four-day spectacle featuring Conservative speakers of many different stripes. The single most important message was to unite, as our differences are miniscule. We must fight the monstrous transformation of the Democratic Party eager to become a Socialist (Communist) Centralized Big Brother that robs the rights of Americans to remain free and productive. Look at California for that evil embryo that is now born to destroy America and pit American against American.

AmFest was incredible. JD Vance closed the event with an inspiring speech, but his government predecessors included a call from President Trump and presenters Speaker Mike Johnson, Tulsi Gabbard, Vivek Ramaswamy, Andy Biggs and Tom Homan. Media stars such as Riley Gaines, Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters and a score of other speakers presented thoughtful messages. One of the big impactful speeches was Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who has a bright future ahead of her. Glenn Beck slew the audience. The surprise guest was Nicki Minaj going full MAGA, who sat in conversation with Erika Kirk. There was no shortage of controversy. It was not all giggles and tickle fights with Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro presenting political challenges. This is what makes Republicans, MAGA and One America strong, as Charlie Kirk always invited opposing viewpoints.

Wandering around the halls of AmFest was inspirational as 30% of the attendees were students or young Americans who are the future. These are the people who will lead us as Charlie Kirk did before he was murdered by a trans terrorist. You could see the fervor in their eyes compared to the screechy pink-haired, pig-ringed Haters who throw bricks without even thinking about who bought the bricks. Charlie’s youth are starting Turning Point chapters from the university down to the high school level. They are learning to engage in loving dialog as Charlie did. The conference repeatedly implored everyone to love people who disagreed with them. Several recurring ideas reverberated through the auditorium over the four days.

America is for Americans and it is time to rebuild an American America. This has nothing to do with racism, sexism or any other “ism” or non-Judeo-Christian religion. It is solely the idea that America is the only country blessed with Human Rights endowed from the Creator. We love legal immigrants and wholeheartedly welcome them to become citizens but they must shed any and all allegiances to their former country. Cultural pride of their heritage is to always be celebrated but anything short of becoming an American is unacceptable. If one cannot become an American, then one is nothing but a foreigner with foreigner interests and must return home. All Illegals must leave precisely because they are Illegal, even though Dementia Joe gave America a Herculean problem to get them to skedaddle. Civilizations fall when a nation is overwhelmed by Takers, not Givers. It is patently obvious that the Democratic Party is replacing Worker votes for Illegal votes in order to garner permanent political power.

Perspective is an amazing thing. The media reports that 100,000+ Americans are murdered by Fentanyl every year. Those are merely words to our desensitized ears. We forget and move on. What is mind-blowing is to actually see 31,000 attendees in the packed AmericaFest auditorium and realize that more than 3X that huge number of people die from Fentanyl every year. In perspective, there were 57,000 wasted deaths spread over our ten-year involvement in the Vietnam War. Our eyes are more important than our ears and we must elect leaders who fight for our God-given Rights, especially the Pursuit of Happiness.

Glenn Beck, amongst others, implored young people to believe in themselves regardless of how the media attempts to divide them. You are responsible to find who the You inside you is. You are strong. Maybe the biggest message of Amfest is to pursue Freedom which is the gift that God working through the Founding Fathers gave us. There is no country, nor has there ever been a country, as blessed as the United States of America. We are a revolutionary country that gives freedom to a person who starts with precisely nothing to achieve unimaginable riches in terms of financial wealth and/or spiritual wealth. Maybe that is why Americans this morning are seeing many people wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the word “Freedom.”

The reader is encouraged to attend future Turning Point events as they are both spiritually and politically uplifting. As JD Vance said, “Make America Great Again and everyone is invited.”