The Conservative Political Action Conference has its eyes beyond the water’s edge in 2024, and far-right movements from around the world have flocked to National Harbor, Maryland to address the conference’s audience of conservative die-hards. The event’s 2024 motto, "where globalism goes to die," is apparently making an exception for global movements with authoritarian and isolationist strains. Representatives and leaders from these movements have taken to the stage to prescribe how to replicate their harsh tactics in the United States. As the conference’s influence has waned domestically, CPAC has expanded its horizons in recent years, launching auxiliary events across the globe in countries like Mexico, Japan, Hungary, Brazil, South Korea, and Australia.
At the Hungarian edition of the Conservative Political Action Conference, Arizona is on center stage as U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar and failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake will share a stage with the leader of a far-right Austrian party founded by former Nazis.
Hiroaki ‘Jay’ Aeba scheduled to address CPAC in Orlando, Florida on Friday
Aeba is Japanese conservative who is said to hold extremist nationalistic views
He is likely to address CPAC about growing threat of China and North Korea
Aeba is also head of the political wing of Happy Science, a Japan-based cult
Happy Science was founded in 1986 by former Wall Street trader Ryuho Okawa
Okawa has claimed to be a messiah incarnated from an alien from Venus
Happy Science has also claimed to offer $400 spiritual vaccine from COVID-19