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Conservative readers should take notice that Megyn Kelly quietly did what too few in our movement will do these days: she stepped into a bitter public spat and helped arrange a private, productive sit-down between Candace Owens and Erika Kirk. According to Kelly and multiple reports, the meeting occurred in Nashville, lasted roughly four and a half hours, and was deliberately held off the record so both women could talk without the cameras and the noise.
Kelly made it plain she supports Candace’s right to ask hard questions but she hopes Owens will move on from relentlessly targeting Turning Point USA while Erika Kirk grieves and tries to run the organization. Kelly has also publicly rejected the idea that Turning Point figures were involved in Charlie Kirk’s killing and said her role was to defuse a conflict that was doing real damage to people and to the conservative movement.
Both women afterwards described the meeting as constructive; Owens said she “asked every single question” she wanted and that Turning Point staff were surprised by some of the intel she shared, while Erika called the conversation “very productive.” Those are facts we ignore at our peril — this was not a staged TV fight but an attempt at real resolution between two influential conservatives.
This moment should remind us that leadership sometimes looks like diplomacy, not drama. We don’t win the long fight against the left by airing every grievance on a livestream and burning organizational bridges; we win by keeping institutions like Turning Point intact, holding leaders accountable privately when necessary, and saving public fights for issues that actually move voters and policy.
Predictably, some commentators attacked Kelly for not publicly piling on Owens, with Ben Shapiro calling it a “logical absurdity” for Kelly to refrain from taking a clear public stance. Let them rage on social media while real people try to rebuild and defend our movement — the rest of us understand the difference between loyalty to truth and performative virtue signaling.
Megyn’s behind-the-scenes mediation is the kind of conservative realism we need more of — the sort of practical stewardship that protects a movement’s institutions while still demanding answers and accountability. If we are serious about winning elections and preserving our ideas, we should reward that kind of maturity, not mock it; the left will keep exploiting our public squabbles if we let them.
So here’s the straightforward plea to fellow patriots: support Turning Point’s mission, encourage transparency where warranted, but stop the online bloodletting that hands the left a perpetual victory. We have bigger enemies and bigger battles ahead; unity forged from honest conversation and strategic restraint wins more than viral outrage ever will.
