MAGALand in Orlando
Orlando, a hub of fantasy theme parks, was the perfect setting for last weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The event showed that Republicans remain stuck in a looking-glass world of upside-down values.
The coronavirus pandemic has killed more Americans than World War II. But not a word of reproach was directed to the ex-president who presided over the nation's COVID-19 debacle. Instead, conservatives gave South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem a standing ovation when she jeered at Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Presidents who fail to win reelection usually have the decency to drop from public view and let their successor take the wheel. But in his closing speech to CPAC, Donald Trump pretended that the 2020 campaign never ended. He repeated the "rigged vote" lie that inspired the Jan. 6 assault on Congress and slurred President Biden with a farrago of false claims.
Even as conservatives boisterously cheered the man who actually did try to defraud U.S. voters, CPAC devoted no fewer than seven panels to "ballot security," by which Republicans mean making it harder for the "wrong" Americans to vote.
But the grandest illusion on display in Orlando was the idea that only Trump can lead Republicans back to political power. In fact, Trump is a proven loser - a "one and done" president who has yoked his party to a futile electoral strategy.
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