CPAC 2024: Once a Republican bastion, annual gathering brings fringe movement to the mainstream ( www.washingtonexaminer.com )

As more members of the fringe are accepted, it raises questions about the future of the Republican Party. For many, it highlights a break within the GOP, often highlighted as a rift between those aligned with party leadership and an anti-establishment movement.

DarkGamer ,

They let the barbarians into the castle a long time ago, now they run it.

octopus_ink ,

Once a Republican bastion, annual gathering brings fringe movement to the mainstream

Soooo... Still a Republican bastion?

toiletobserver ,

Yes, but there are no more quiet parts, only out loud parts.

FunderPants ,

The stuff they use to say to each other in the crowd is now said on the stage.

DocMcStuffin ,
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Yikes, you know things are bad when the Washington Examiner which leans pretty hard to the right is criticizing CPAC. Seriously, this is the same publication that views Turning Point USA favorably.

ShortBoweledClown ,

Reads more like they are trying to create the illusion of some divide between the assholes at CPAC and the GOP as whole. They are 100% the same group

OpenStars ,
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But isn't there a divide b/t the old-guard aka Mitch McConnell types that we call "GOP" vs. the newer Trump types that we call "GQP"?

At the end of the day, they stand united - e.g. McConnell blocked Trump's impeachments (both of them) - so yeah there's that. But they also supposedly do not enjoy each other's company, for whatever little to nothing that translates into meaning... right now.

So to a first approximation, I think you are right. What worries me is that the second approximation may literally end our nation's democracy: the "core" right now seems to be the GOP, with Mitch at the helm, but when the fringe moves inwards to take over the core, and the GQP are not merely present even at high power levels (having the Presidency but lacking the House) and instead control everything, just how much worse are they going to make things, for the entire USA?

ShortBoweledClown ,

I invite you to look at the voting record for this (or last several) congress and show me a intra-GOP divide. The "core" votes with the "fringe" regularly because they place party above country.

OpenStars ,
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I literally addressed that potential misunderstanding in my second sentence, starting with:

At the end of the day, they stand united...

and then proceeded to explain what I meant, in case you are interested.

vegeta OP ,

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jordanlund Mod ,
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"Brings"?

Have people already forgotten?

2021:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2021/02/27/cpac-stage-compared-to-nazi-symbol-on-social-media/

2022:
https://www.chron.com/politics/article/CPAC-Dallas-we-are-all-domestic-terrorists-banner-17359959.php

PeepinGoodArgs ,

Yeah, I'd forgotten about these.

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