for them and are not necessary. our hospitals are filled with people who are dying, dying of covid who could be alive and also taking hospital beds from other people who are sick. so, yeah, it has a very deadly consequence. yeah, and, chris, i mean but it s just absurd. you ve been to these cpacs. i mean, i know there was a certain level of trolling that always existed at cpacs, but this is so bizarre, it s like a different universe compared to the cpac that we used to attend as reporters like five years ago. it used to be interesting because you had different kinds of conservatives. it was a good microcosm of the american right with different points of view represented. it s not a very good business model. it doesn t work as well. and now they ve shipped it overseas. they ve had cpac brazil which apparently was with the
they think it will help them stay in power because it s shared this is shared by the people they want to vote for them. once they are in office, they will stay in office because they will be able to say, well, i guess there is no socialism here so we are doing a great job, question mark? i also find that endurance of socialism marxism as the focal point of the attack, like, truly wild and somewhat baffling. mo brooks was at i question cpac, did two cpacs this year, i saw a speech of his in dallas warning about marks im. my departed grandfather, god bless him, roger haste sr., staunch anti-communist, big right winger, but he was around when there was a soviet union and a cold war. it s wild to me this has continued down through the generations as such a central talking point, meghan. that s right.
CPAC is ready to keep celebrating Trump
David Weigel, The Washington Post
Feb. 25, 2021
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Then-President Donald Trump hugs a U.S. flag as he takes the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., on March 2, 2019. He will speak to CPAC on Sunday.Photo for The Washington Post by J. Lawler Duggan
One panel will discuss whether tech companies are colluding to deprive us of our humanity. One speech will explore what to do when a social media network de-platforms a conservative by deleting his account. And seven main-stage panels or speeches will litigate the 2020 election, with panelists who mostly - and incorrectly - argue that Donald Trump won.
corrosive way to donald trump s ilk. as someone who s been to probably, i don t know, over a dozen cpacs over my political career, and it was something i used to look forward to as a conservative because it was never a circus like this. it s really sunken to a place of embarrassment. watching republicans clap like seals to that lunacy of a speech yesterday by the president of the united states is just disheartening in a lot of ways. this is where the party is going. you know, the fact that but it was also very indicative of where president trump is going and how he plans to run in 2020. it was very revealing. so for those who are going to run against donald trump, study that and look at it. what he did inside of all of those one-liners and trying to normalize a lot of the fact that he s gone against so many norms
for this very problematic week for the president? you ve got security clearance, you ve got failure in hanoi, you ve got michael cohen s multihour testimony in front of the world on wednesday. dave, you first. which one do you think was top of list in terms of being problems for the president? i might go slightly in a different direction. it s problematic potentially, but it also is a galvanizing week for donald trump, at least among his supporters, and he enjoys incredible support among republicans right now. i ve been going to cpacs for years, and they used to be sort of these, you know, almost wonky, very big-tent republican conservative gatherings where every ideology was represented within the ranks of conservatism. this was a trump pep rally almost beginning to end. so if donald trump has a bad week, that also can be a good week for donald trump in a way that he really needs it in a political context, which is retaining his space, keeping people excited, firing people up. havin