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Another CPAC has come and gone. I have attended the annual Conservative Political Action Conference here in the Washington area since 1993, when I was a producer on “The G. Gordon Liddy Show.” With the exception of President Trump appearing on Friday, this CPAC was not much different than the many others.
Good for you to write this article, he and those who think like him need marginalization. I looked up who it was and he was quoted as saying,”I feel very welcome here, no one is punching me”. Eh, probably not worth being arrested but I’d enjoy it. Maybe just throwing a drink in his face would be enough.
Good for you, Cameron. I’m sorry you had to witness this. Unlike, oh, 80 years ago, this time we’ve got your back.
Ugh. It’s awful when these loons show up for anything.
I remember when these NN cretins would show up at gun shows and pass out tracts, thankfully the local show organizers banned them some 20 years ago now.
C’mon, he’s just being un-PC. College kids think it’s edgy, and we need those people.
Of course, that’s nonsense, but I can imagine John Gill making the argument that’s possible to make some sort of rapprochement with these people because, c’mon, at least they’re right on the importance of having a strong domestic steel industry.
Probably funded by Soros.
Sad they get any traction at all.
I’ve never understood why organizations like CPAC or political campaigns don’t have a person assigned to check out attendees and donors… even if it’s to have a few savvy people read through the list for red flags. Not that hard to do these days with all the info available on the internet, yet it seems like so few do and they get caught out by the media.
Why shouldn’t they get traction. St. Milo himself explained to us how really misunderstood their alt-views are. They aren’t the peddlers of a defunct ideology they are the bold intellectuals asking the questions everyone else is too afraid or PC to take on.
Questions like “what’s wrong with banging teenagers so long as they’re 16?”
I feared conservative boundaries had totally collapsed. Dan Schneider (ED of ACU) sank that idea. One day those college kids who took pictures with Spencer will be anxiously plumbing the brain of the internet to find out whether their careers have been been terminated.
Two things on Spencer (if it really was Spencer)
I don’t think Neo-nazi is the most appropriate term for him. White supremacist works better. IIRC, he specifically is hateful against non-whites, as opposed the anti-semitic lines you would here from a Nazi. Names have meaning, they aren’t just pejoratives like how the left uses fascist and racist.
Also, he really is a wannabe politician that can’t attract a large following. (Comparing him to Milo is giving him way too much credit) He gets lots of play from the media. His fearsome convention had about 200 people attending. He’s a lot like Lyndon LaRouche, a crackpot candidate with a small fanatical following.
@camerongray do not fret, there is a certain fascination with fairly famous evil people. I remember having a surreal but polite conversation with terrorist Bill Ayers at an event in college. It’s odd being next to a person like that, and I don’t know if the driving force for the college kids was agreement, as opposed to fascination that the monster did not have horns and a tail.