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SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
3/8/2023
Trump's Apocalyptic CPAC Speech Aimed Squarely at Southern Evangelicals
by Thomas Lecaque
In the past, Evangelicals and other apocalypse-minded constituencies have projected their views onto Donald Trump. Now, Trump seems to be fully embracing the bit, suggesting that violence above and beyond politics will usher in the Kingdom.
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SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
3/7/2023
Face It: CPAC Was a Mussolini Moment
by Will Bunch
After Trump's CPAC speech promised that he'd be an instrument of retribution against his followers' enemies, it's time to stop tiptoeing around the historic parallels, writes columnist Will Bunch.
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SOURCE: Texas Monthly
8/8/2022
At CPAC, Trump Presents a Violent Blueprint for Taking Power
The combination of persecution and rage on display in CPAC rhetoric by the former president and others suggests the right granting itself permission to take steps including violence to take power if the ballot fails.
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SOURCE: New Statesman
8/4/2022
Orban's American Apologists
by John Ganz
Why is the leader of a small and politically insignificant European nation suddenly a celebrated hero for the American right? Orban's brand of nationalism represents a test of how far ethnonationalists can go in public.
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SOURCE: I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I Try to Be Amused (Substack)
8/1/2022
CPAC's Orban Fandom in Historical Context
by Jason Tebbe
Orbanism resonates with today's American right because it explicitly rejects liberalism, involves the masses in politics while rigging the system for favorable outcomes, and gets its power from resentment of marginalized “outsiders," galvanizing a group feeling its demographic and cultural position decline.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/19/2022
Bringing CPAC to Hungary Betrays the Roots of the Conservative Movement
by Lauren Lassabe
It is a bitter irony that the postwar American conservative movement was energized by the anti-Stalinist Hungarian revolution of the 1950s; today the movement takes inspiration from a repressive regime and its autocratic leader.
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3/21/2021
Rally 'Round the Rune: Fascist Echoes of the CPAC Stage
by Mark Auslander and Jay Ball
The incorporation of a Norse rune associated with the SS into the stage of the recent CPAC conference probably isn't an accident; the choice reflects the cultural cachet of Norse myth on the far right, the conservative movement's desire to maintain deniability about its ties to the far right, and the recognition that the design would be crystal clear to viewers of internet memes.
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3/2/2021
Historians on CPAC 2021
The annual conservative meeting showed that Donald Trump still holds the steering wheel of the Republican Party. Historians on the speeches, the stage design, and the golden idol.
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SOURCE: New York Times
Trumpism Grips a Post-Policy G.O.P. as Traditional Conservatism Fades
by Jonathan Martin
This year's CPAC meeting shows a remarkable Trumpian orthodoxy among Republican officials that stands out in contrast to the intense public debates that have followed previous electoral defeats.
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SOURCE: ThinkProgress
3-15-13
CPAC attendee: "Why can’t we just have segregation?"
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — A panel at the Conservative Political Action Committee on Republican minority outreach exploded into controversy on Friday afternoon, after an audience member defended slavery as good for African-Americans.The exchange occurred after an audience member from North Carolina, 30-year-old Scott Terry, asked whether Republicans could endorse races remaining separate but equal. After the presenter, K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans, answered by referencing a letter by Frederick Douglass forgiving his former master, the audience member said “For what? For feeding him and housing him?” Several people in the audience cheered and applauded Terry’s outburst.After the exchange, Terry muttered under his breath, “why can’t we just have segregation?” noting the Constitution’s protections for freedom of association. ...