Trump’s Good Couple Weeks
Kurt Schlichter
If CPAC 2023 proved anything, it was that Donald Trump still has his dedicated fans – from Brick Suit Guy (a smart, nice dude who fully absolutely gets the wackiness of his act) to a family wearing shirts bearing one letter each of the ex-prezzy’s name to the scores regular folks who adore him, the president remains beloved. They lined up and waited for hours to see him speak again, and he delivered again – his never-ending speech (heavy on policy but DeSantis-free) was generally well-received. Even the DeSantis-curious qualified their moving-on with respect for the accomplishments of Trump’s first three years and agreed that the Florida governor should have shown up and thrown down. Combine all that with a triumphant spin through East Palestine (the best day of Donald Trump’s ex-presidency) and at least some surging poll numbers, and it's been a pretty good couple weeks for the Bad Orange Man.
But success at the conservative summit is not necessarily the same as success out in the general election, or even out in the Republican primary. CPAC was a little smaller this year volume-wise, probably due to being back in DC and the Biden economy, but the dedicated base folks were there. There weren’t quite as many students in their elephant skirts or awkward blazers, or quite as many dudes in tri-corner hats – though of course, there were still dudes in tri-corner hats – but it was a good gathering, and people were happy and motivated. There was very little dooming and a lot of excitement over the primary. The enemy regime media, which came in for plenty of contempt, will try and have you think that it was sparsely attended (there were still a ton of people) so the conservative movement is therefore broken and demoralized. That contempt was expressed during the panel I shared with Townhall’s own Larry O’Connor, Brent Bozell, and the great @LibsofTikTok. My personal CPAC highlight (besides, my informal conclave with super-lawyer Ron Coleman) was being accused by leftist media of joking from the stage about hunting reporters for sport. Yeah, “joking.”
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