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brooklynite

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Wed Feb 20, 2019, 05:19 PM Feb 2019

CPAC: A Conservative Festivus

If ever there were any doubts that the conservative movement has yielded completely to its “grifters and frauds” faction, the announcement of the 2019 CPAC lineup last week put those to rest.

What’s a thoughtful righty to do? Heath Mayo, a Texas-born, Boston-based consultant, took to Twitter. And in doing so, he started a movement of his own.

The tweet highlighted CPAC’s “big-name” speakers: Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, Seb Gorka, and Jeanine Pirro. He added more in another tweet, “lest you think I cherry picked”: Diamond & Silk, Nigel Farage, James O’Keefe, and Michelle Malkin.

“It’s not clear to me what the point is, anymore, of CPAC,” Mayo said in a phone interview. At pre-Trump CPACs, he said “You would have policy discussions with serious folks who disagreed vehemently, but that considered themselves conservative. It was a debate about ideas, you know, and not ‘let’s get together and do a chant for Sheriff Clarke. I think that’s what folks are missing.”


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CPAC: A Conservative Festivus (Original Post) brooklynite Feb 2019 OP
It's a clown show. octoberlib Feb 2019 #1
Former Reagan supporters that joined the safeinOhio Feb 2019 #2
CPAC - Clowns Posing As Conservatives. TheCowsCameHome Feb 2019 #3
But, will there be any leftieNanner Feb 2019 #4
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