The American host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel summed up the Conservative Political Action Conference, also known as CPAC, as the “gathering of the craziest right-wing Republicans in the country.” “It’s the summit of who won’t accept the results of the next election,” he continued. “And the speakers? Flat Earthers and all that, with some foreign dictators and sexual predators mixed in.”
The CPACa former meeting of a representative part of the Republican Party, became this year the global stage for the world’s right wing called by the bases MAGA party: Make America Great Again, the former president’s line donald trump. The tycoon, favorite in the internal party, was precisely the main speaker among a dozen world leaders where the Argentine signed up. Javier Milei, the Salvadorian Nayib Bukelethe Spanish Santiago Abascalthe Brazilian Eduardo Bolsonaroand several European leaders, from Volodomir Zelensky to Liz Truss, the former British prime minister.
Breed
The former American president has practically established himself as the chosen one in the Republican race. If his main contender Nikki Haley is still in the race, having not won a single regional stop, it is because the legal scenario for her is still unclear. donald trump: The US Supreme Court must decide whether to convict him for the 2021 attacks on the Capitol, and disqualify him from returning to the White House.
The former president feigns insanity in the face of that possibility, but speeds up the debate to define his vice president: who can be at the head of the formula if he is outlaw. In that election, Trump separates faithful from old and potential traitors, with the same logic that he exhibits today in Argentine politics. Javier Milei.
Meanwhile, also like Milei, the American concentrates his campaign maxims on a return to the presidency to cleanse the old politics that lives off the State from power, and achieve a cultural change.
Trump has already expressed his desire to fire career government officials, accusing them of undermining his agenda while he was in the Oval Office. And he will seek revenge against Joe Biden, in retaliation for the criminal charges he faces.
Chainsaws
The state’s cutback speech was heard in chorus at CPAC. Not only from the mouth of Javier Milei, who had a long-awaited meeting with Trump behind the scenes. The former British and libertarian prime minister also supported the idea. Liss Truss, who went further: “The Conservatives are now operating in what is a hostile environment and we essentially need a bigger bazooka to be able to deliver.” In his 15-minute speech he took aim at the “deep state,” ruled by the left.
Accompanied by the former leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel FarageTruss assured: “We have a new type of economy in the West. It’s called wokenomics.” Thus he delved into the idea of progressive capitalism and friendly businessmen, in tune with the narrative inspired by Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist of the White House, today linked to global nationalist movements of the extreme right. The former British prime minister argued that the left has infiltrated public and private institutions, and has sabotaged efforts to cut taxes and reduce the size of government for its own benefit. She only lacked the word caste in her speech for a pure harmony with the Mileist preaching.
Firm hand
“The people of El Salvador have woken up, and you can do it too,” harangued the recently re-elected president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukelebefore a mostly American audience – other Latinos were also there, such as the Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrich– against which he exposed his war plan against crime.
In a Milei-style “they don’t see it,” he noted that many of the big cities in the United States were “in decline” and had become “places where crime and drugs are the daily norm.” Bukele, former mayor of the capital of San Salvador, came to the presidency in 2019 with the promise of ending gang violence and corruption. And he achieved it. But in the process he carried out mass arrests : 75,000 people have been detained under emergency measures that have been extended repeatedly, alarming human rights groups. But with more than 80% support at the polls endorsing his policies, he aroused admiration among Republican Latinos who seek to emulate him.
“Global elites hate our success and they fear theirs,” Bukele told them in his speech. In full harmony with that of Spanish Abascal. “Socialism seeks to criminalize the people who defend themselves, and the rulers who protect the lives of their citizens against drug or immigration mafias,” said the leader of Vox, who in turn pointed out against environmental measures. that impoverish the middle class in the West but enrich China, global conservative preaching.
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