At conservative gathering, ideas fall to an airing of Trump grievances

[DonViejo]

By David Weigel
Feb. 25, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EST

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.

The Conservative Political Action Conference, which begins this week, has evolved from a fractious meeting of Republicans and libertarians into a celebration of the 45th president and the airing of his grievances.

Trump will close out the event with his first speech since leaving the White House, minutes after a 2024 presidential straw poll that he’s expected to win. The arguments among some elected Republicans about whether they should retool their agenda to prevent future losses, or revisit their alliance with Trump, will have to happen somewhere else.

“The idea that we’re going to come up with some kind of conservative platform at CPAC, it rings a little hollow,” said Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, which organizes the conference. “Right now, half the country” feels cheated “by the media coverage of the election. So we’re going to go back and cover the facts that most people in the media canceled.”

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[Swede]

1. I promise I won't hit you again.

Please let me come home.

[underpants]

2. He Man Woman Haters Club

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[Ohiogal]

3. Until my dying day

I will never begin to understand the obsession these pathetic cultists have for that orange POS.

He’s not very smart. He’s definitely not good looking. He has zero charisma. He’s mean and insults everyone. He will,stab you in the back even if you’ve bent over for him your whole life.
He greedy,selfish, a narcissist, lawless, hateful. What is there to worship about this waste of skin?

And that goes double for any woman that worships him. Bleccch

[Sur Zobra]

10. Because they aspire

to be him, and they are just as hateful

[Ray Bruns]

13. I have the same bewilderment.

I cannot, for the life of me, understand their enraptured loyalty of someone who has turned on everyone who has ever worked for trump. Even Pence.

[PatSeg]

15. I know

I ask myself the same thing on a regular basis. I have tried to see the appeal, but I just don't get it. I really thought if the U.S. ever elected a tyrant as president, he would be smart and charismatic, as well as an excellent public speaker. Long before Trump entered politics, I looked at him and saw a media clown. Everything about him was so ridiculous, how could anyone look at him and say, "He should be President of the United States"?

Also, he is so obvious about how he lies and uses his followers. He doesn't even try to disguise it.

[dweller]

4. the horse is dead

therefore we must beat it mercilessly...
😐

✌🏻

[tanyev]

5. Oh, they're still celebrating Festivus. Donald is the reason for the season!

[Ohiogal]

11. LOL

They celebrate Festivus all year long!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. All CPAC is...BASHING Democrats.

What else is there for Republicsns to do other than to celebrate the DEATH of Democracy as we know it?

All will be prostrating themselves before the Orange One, pledging their loyalty to riot on his behalf, prevent anyone not WHITE the right to vote, and oppose change for the better at all costs.

Pass the popcorn, the movie is about to start.

[Solly Mack]

7. What a pathetic lot of traders in misery.

[jcgoldie]

8. "half the country feels cheated"...

Because we have been lying to them for 3 months... so lets keep lying to them.

[llashram]

9. they will cheer

their 'golden calf'. He allows them to soak their constituents for 'donations'. The clown called trump has enriched himself and those with their nose up his ass.

[notinkansas]

12. Aside from the fact that what they will be doing is absolutely stupid,

riling up the insurrectionist types is exactly the wrong thing to do. We've already had one of those this year. Stop it!

[Silent3]

14. It's like right-wing Festivus, but all year round

Feats of strength have been replaced with feats of Trumpian sycophancy.