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Via Dallas News:
Conservative commentator Dana Loesch asked a crowd of more than 1,000 young women Thursday night if they’ve ever faced insults over their conservative beliefs.
Nearly every hand shot straight into the air.
“Wow. This just hurts me in my heart to see,” she said to the crowd of teens and young women at the Hyatt Regency hotel at DFW International Airport. “Look at this; I know it feels like Mean Girls for a moment, but that is amazing.”
The Southlake resident was one of several well-known conservative figures to speak Thursday night at the fourth annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit, a four-day conference that offers leadership training and networking opportunities to young conservative women. Loesch is also the spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association, one of the summit’s hosts.
For some in the audience, it was a moment of reckoning: Conservative women must stick together and support each other in today’s political climate.
“Never, ever, bow a knee,” Loesch told the crowd. “Never bend a knee, never bow before the outrage mob on any issue, ever. Know that you are in truth, that what you believe is right. I know it’s hard.”[…]
After being raised a Democrat, Kyasia Benjamin, 22, “came out” as a conservative Republican to her friends and family a few months ago, at the end of her last semester at Maryville College in Tennessee.
“Were they too happy about it? I highly doubt it,” she said. “But they’ve respected it.”
Benjamin, who writes for the conservative group Future Female Leaders, called her grandmother to warn her that she was officially letting the world know about her beliefs in an upcoming article.
“I told her, ‘Hey, just so you know, the article is supposed to come out today. I don’t want you getting any crazy phone calls, since you already knew about it,’” she said. “Apparently, two of my aunts had read it and thought it was very well-written, well-worded, and I come to find out that one of my cousins and my brother voted for Trump.”