At Turning Point USA’s recent “Young Women’s Leadership Summit” in Dallas, Texas, speakers repeatedly dispensed advice to the audience of high school and college-age women on how to find a “dude-servative,” create a “godly foundation for your relationship,” get married, and have children.
The event, which was billed as a “celebration of freedom and femininity” for “cuteservatives,” included appearances from TPUSA personalities, including founder Charlie Kirk and Alex Clark, host of the “Poplitics” Instagram show that covers “pop culture without the propaganda,” as well as media denizens from the Trumpworld extended universe such as The Daily Wire’s Candace Owens, right-wing radio host Dana Loesch, Lara Trump, Fox’s Kayleigh McEnany, and more. The glitzy images promoting the event were all over TPUSA's social media accounts, encouraging attendance and sharing content from the speeches.
The consistent message was simple and clear: Young women ought to aspire to find a man who will marry them and shepherd them through life, followed by having babies and dedicating themselves to domestic responsibilities.
Alex Clark, the right-wing influencer and face of TPUSA’s efforts to recruit young women through cutesy, girly lifestyle content, was YWLS’s first speaker. She kicked off day one with a reference to Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do,” saying, “I’m sorry, the old conservative movement can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Because it’s dead,” before making her grand entrance replete with smoke machines and a glittery background.
During her speech, she said the theme of the conference was “pretty fed up” because “we are pretty but we are pissed off.” She promised that the “biggest, baddest voices in the conservative movement” were on the conference’s lineup and might “actually have some advice for you on how to find your dude-servative.” The audience cheered, and she said, “We got real loud in the audience for that.”