ICYMI: At CPAC in Dallas, Migration Is an 'Invasion,' Communism Looms and Trump's the 'Most Persecuted' Man in U.S.
But that’s where the broad similarities stop. In 1974, the Republican Party might have worried that the Nixon administration’s moves against democratic norms would tank their party. In 2022, at CPAC Dallas, Trump still reigned supreme. Just browse the vendor booths: You’ll find T-shirts that say Trump 2024, “Make America Great Again” flags and even a cardboard cutout with the bizarrely ever-present Trump’s head on Rambo’s body, a machine gun in his hands.
The Texas senator’s speech was mostly made up of limp jokes he’d recycled from previous appearances, including at a conservative summit last month. Nancy Pelosi would eventually lose an election and fly away from D.C. “on a broom.” Anthony Fauci is “only 5 feet tall.” Cruz’s pronouns, he shouted to a raucous audience, were “kiss my ass.” Cruz wrapped up by describing his audience as “the vanguard,” “courageous heroes” and “dangerous radicals.
If Paxton’s speech strikes you as, well, repetitive, that’s because CPAC Dallas is, like many political gatherings, an echo chamber. Panels are populated with people who agree on almost everything. Stage interviews are made up of softball questions. The audience is almost entirely Republican. Speakers mostly go unchallenged . It’s a constant reel of rightwing politicians, media figures and activists recycling buzzwords.
Nearby, another booth had pamphlets for the Convention of States Action, a Houston-based advocacy group. Cyndie Phillips passed out U.S. Constitution booklets already dog-eared to the page bearing Article V. Their goal, she said, is to convince states to call a convention where they’d be able to propose constitutional amendments.
Subsequent speakers included Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, Michigan gubernatorial hopeful Tudor Dixon and Glenn Beck, who came out in a cowboy hat and a bolo tie. Beck’s speech was titled “American History: What You Don’t Know,” although the discussion was limited to current events that, if the applause and booing in the crowd were any indication, everybody present already knew about.
It was a speech much like most of his speeches: apocalyptic and dark. He said the country needs more police, more Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, more Border Patrol officers, more military power in the world. Police need to readopt stop-and-frisk policies. Drugs dealers need to be executed.
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