The Trump lovefest known as the Conservative Political Action Conference returned to National Harbor, across the Potomac from the nation’s capital, on Thursday.
It was a triumphant return for the right wing of Republican Party politics, long represented over the party’s DC establishment at the three-day event. But with many of the Republican electeds on Capital Hill and their allies in the White House aligned firmly with the MAGA, “America First” agenda, CPAC was once again a homecoming for what Senator Jim Banks called onstage the “new right” of American politics.
