The conference where Reagan first spoke of his “shining city upon a hill” is a struggle for a band of conservatives from the pre-Trump era.
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — In 2011, Rep. Joe Walsh was a tea party darling, a harsh critic of the Obama administration who brought the house down at the Conservative Political Action Conference. In 2020, he was at CPAC again — but as a guest of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, hesitantly walking through the exhibition halls with comedian Roy Wood Jr.
Former CPAC attendees said in interviews that they shared similar sentiments, and that they barely recognized their beloved conference anymore. Story continues“The environment that’s been created now is so hostile to anyone that has a different view. And particularly those of us who have taken principled stands against Donald Trump as conservatives,” said Tara Setmayer, a Republican communications director on Capitol Hill in the pre-Trump era.
“Movement conservatives saw themselves as being separate from the administration,” recalled Matt Lewis, a columnist at The Daily Beast who was, at one point, honored as CPAC’s Blogger of the Year in 2010. “Part of our job was to hold them accountable and to cheer them when they did well, boo them when they did bad. And now I think there’s a sense that they’re really one and the same. The conservative movement is the Republican party, is CPAC, is Donald Trump.
“I wanted to be with like-minded people that like good, thoughtful, deep discussion about what future is for conservatism,” said University of Virginia doctoral student Alex Welch, who had attended CPAC from 2011 through 2013.
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