The Young Turks co-founder Cenk Uygur joined Charlie Kirk onstage at a Turning Point USA event in Phoenix on Saturday — which was weird enough — but then praised the group for being more “welcoming” and called for a “populist revolt” against established elite groups.
Uygur criticized Democratic leadership as being “corporate robots” who only appeal to the rich people who donate to their campaigns.
“I can tell you definitely that the Democrat leadership and the Democratic establishment will never voluntarily go in a new direction. They will never voluntarily accept populism. They are built on donor money. They are of the donors, by the donors, for the donors,” Uygur said.
Uyger told Kirk:
We have too much division. We almost never unify. I don’t mean with the right. I mean internally. The left loves to attack one another. I love you guys on the left. I love you. But every once in a while, when we get a yes, when we agree. Can we please unite? And the second thing we need is for the old I’m being honest. And on average, not everyone, of course, but for the older Democratic voters. Please turn off your television sets there. They’re lying to you. They’re tricking you. They’re trying to get you to vote for corruption. They’re trying to get you to vote for policies you don’t even want.
Uyger, a Turkish-born naturalized U.S. citizen, made an unserious run for President in 2023, saying he was running against Joe Biden because he was “down 24 points on the economy. He has no ability to make up that kind of ground on the most important issue.”