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Republicans Show Just How Much “Crazy” They’re Willing To Put Up With
We Really Didn’t Want To Cover The Annual Conservative Jamboree Known As CPAC, And The President’s Speech There.
Which is why we’re reporting on it 3 days late. Because we figured it would all just be “more of the same”. Which, frankly is the whole point of the prep-rally-like event. And it was: obsession with the crowd size at his inauguration, making fun of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, complete with putting on a Southern accent (lending credence to a story in Bob Woodward’s book Trump had derided as “phony” about ridiculing Sessions and calling him a “dumb Southerner”), etc. But on steroids.
Trump gave what was objectively one of his most emboldened/unhinged performances ever, a 2-hour plus mostly contemporaneous speech.
Still, a couple of things keep nagging us about that CPAC speech. Because the more we think about it the more we feel it answers some questions we’ve been raising, while raising others we hadn’t even thought of. So here we are…
A couple of weeks ago we ended a column with the following assertion, and question:
“A lot of people voted for Trump in the hope he’d shake up a gridlocked and ineffectual Washington. He has. Now…
