A number of commentators faulted Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for not attending CPAC this year.
Most likely, he was invited, but turned it down. The
MAGA-Conservative intelligentsia on the blogs think that DeSantis is already showing
some establishment leanings, that he is making a mistake not connecting
with the grassroots at CPAC.
The truth is that lots of people skipped CPAC this year.
Stacey
Lennox remarked that CPAC has reached the end of its influence, hollowed
out to a “Only Trump” contingent that shows no interest in really talking with
anyone else. Governor Chris Christie, whose non-invite invited massive
speculation and inquiry from the press, left and right, remarked that the room
was half-full
when Trump addressed the crowd.
The Trump-Trump-Trump MAGA MAGA schtick has gotten old. CPAC
has turned into ultimate in MAGA Grift, and now that Trump is no longer in
office, the momentum has worn off.
But there’s more beneath the surface as to why CPAC now
sucks.
A friend of mine, an independent journalist from
Massachusetts, attended the event to record the speeches and meet with
activists. One of the media agents in attendance? The Southern Poverty Law
Center. This hate group from Alabama is not even media in any respectable sense,
but a hate group dedicated to fundraising and smearing anyone they disagree
with (predominantly conservatives). How could CPAC possibly consider them
media, and even allow them a table at the event?!
And it gets worse.
CPAC has dedicated its time and energy to rolling out the
rainbow carpet for homosexuals and transgenders, even those these aberrant,
destructive behaviors are far from conservative. The corruption of identity
politics, social liberalism, all advertised under the guise of “libertarianism”
has so infected the conference. The normalization of homosexuality at CPAC goes
as far back as 2010, when one of the keynote speakers at the conference, Ryan Sorba, condemned the gathering
for allowing GOProud to attend the event. There was widespread booing in
the audience, but at least the host came to the mike to defend Sorba’s
comments.
Remark well that that level of LGBT hostility was already in
display at CPAC as far back as 2010, at the height of the Tea Party movement
crashing against Barack Obama’s efforts to fundamentally transform America.
Even then, Obama was still opposing “gay” marriage, yet among the conservative
who’s-who who attended CPAC, it was taboo and “bad taste” for anyone to
criticize sodomy and transvestism as not conservative … even though it is not
conservative to begin with.
And it gets worse. In
2018, when MassResistance (the effective international pro-family
organization that I work for) was offered the opportunity to host a booth at
the conference. CPAC organizers went out of their way to line them up and
invite them in. Then all of a sudden, MassResistance’s application was rejected
and they were cancelled. WHAT?!
(And remember that CPAC advertised one of their recent conferences
as “America Uncancelled.” Sure!)
A number of conservative organizations took MassResistance’s
side on this fracas, and even
Michelle Malkin weighed in on MassRedsistance’s side a few years later.
Malkin also exposed the corporate, pro-open borders lobbies that had been
funding CPAC, as well.
The whole CPAC circus reminds me of that tone-deaf press
conference/rally that
Trump had in South Carolina earlier this year. Trump declares the usual
MAGA-boilerplate talking points about going after the Deep State, draining the
Swamp, taking the fight to the Dems, and cleaning out the RINOs. And all while
Trump was piling on his red-meat pledges, right next to him stood Lindsey
Graham, the biggest RINO in the crash. Why does Lindsey Graham get top billing
at Trump Rallies, even though he actively thwarts his agenda every chance he
gets?
Flattery, and Trump buys into it. And that’s what CPAC has
turned into: a Trump flattery circle-jerk. They grovel for the MAGA grift as
fast as they can, hoping to get an easy buck.
And that’s why it’s crashing and burning.
They celebrate drag queens, and they kick out pro-family
activists who actually win the culture war.
Homosexuals get drunk
off their butts wander freely and look for screen time.
The leadership for CPAC, Matt Schlapp, faces
allegations of sexual misconduct, but no one seems to care.
When alternative journalists show up, they get shown the
door (see what happened to Owen Shroyer of InfoWars here.)
And
who can forget the Golden Calf, er Statue dedicated to (or deifying?)
President Donald Trump? Yes, it’s crystal clear to anyone who is paying
attention that CPAC is not longer about advancing or advocating conservative
values. It’s turned into a self-righteous fawning expedition for grifters
looking to cash in on gullible MAGA types who want to feel good and be “part of
something.”
Thankfully this year, there were far fewer people there to
be part of anything in the first place, since so few people attend in the first
place.
Governor Ron DeSantis made the right move by not attending
CPAC. There is no point in talking to an audience full of “Trump No Matter
What” sycophants who are going to give Trump the win via the biased, skewed,
and useless straw poll. DeSantis wasn’t ignoring the working or middle-class or
grassroots crowd, since podcasters looking to cut some clips and make some
money is what CPAC has been reduced to. If you want to run for President, you
need to raise your name, game, and fame. That takes money and connections, and
neither of them are in large supply at CPAC.
I would go one step further why CPAC sucks, and it goes
beyond the fact that it’s turn into a RINO shill grift-fest. I think lots of
conservatives, constitutionalists, etc. see the country in a really bad shape,
in a really bad state. Great speeches, nice rallies, stirring talking points
just aren’t enough anymore. No longer conservative, no longer engaging, no
longer a robust convocation of communities within the conservative movement,
CPAC needs to pack it up and say “See ya.”
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