Trump Takes A Victory Lap
CPAC the conservative political action committee, which used to be the premier Republican meeting place, became a Trump-only zone for 2023. Most Republican governors skipped coming, and in previous years there would have been multiple candidates running for president, but this time there was only Trump and Trump loyalists. Nikki Haley showed up and spoke, but was greeted in the hall by chants of, "Trump, Trump, Trump!" Mike Pompeo also spoke, but to a tepid response, and Trump's only serious competition for the 2024 Republican nomination Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was nowhere to be seen. In my previous blog post The MAGA Republican Party I pointed out that Trump had completely taken over the Republican Party by using the primary system to remove Republicans that opposed his agenda, and that the House of Representatives this year is the first MAGA Republican-controlled House of Representatives. On Saturday March 4th 2023 at CPAC Donald Trump to...