Over the past few months, there has been much prognostication over the flight of young American conservative women from the Republican party. Are young women leaving the ‘new right’? Have they become ‘disillusioned’ – as one news outlet put it – with the politics of the second Trump administration?

This weekend, the conservative organisation Turning Point USA hosted its annual women’s leadership summit in San Antonio, Texas. There, I saw none of the rumoured divide between being ‘Maga’ and ‘America First’ said to be fissuring young supporters of the GOP.

The summit represented the consolidation of a counter-counter-culture

The summit represented the consolidation of a counter-counter-culture

Far from abandoning Donald Trump, the conference-goers in San Antonio appeared to channel the defiant spirit of the fabled Texas cry, ‘Remember the Alamo!’ When Riley Gaines, the champion swimmer turned Maga advocate, declared that for the media nothing was worse than being a ‘triple Trump’ voter – ‘the most cancellable of offences’ – the ballroom was awash with cheers from the........

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