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“I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to deplatform,” Vice President JD Vance told the crowd at Turning Point USA‘s AmFest conference in Phoenix this week. This was almost surely a shot at Ben Shapiro, who warned earlier in the week about the “charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty.”