Donald Trump has been a keynote speaker at CPAC since 2017, and since then CPAC has increasingly shaped itself in his image. This transformation seems almost complete as during the 2024 CPAC the Nazis were welcomed.
“The Nazis appear to have found a friendly welcome at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference.
During the conference, racist extremists, some of whom had secured official CPAC badges, openly mingled with conference attendees and espoused anti-Semitic conspiracy theories,” Ben Goggin reported for NBC News.
They were “spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and finding allies.”
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Indeed, CPAC confirms years of criticism of Trump and the Republican Party as racist and neo-Nazi authoritarians.
In previous years, Nazis who sought to spread the message of white nationalism that Trump had openly embraced were asked to leave. but those days are over.
Trump turned CPAC into an openly racist and white nationalist Nazi event, in keeping with how he behaved as president and continues to behave now.
Not only were there not many blacks at Trump’s speech at the Black Conservative Forum, prompting Jason Easley to ask, “There are black conservatives in the country, so where are they?”, but also…
It was suggested that black voters would like Trump because he sold sneakers. Trump was openly racist in his speech, saying that black voters like him because of his accusations against him, which suggests that Trump believes black voters are referring to an indicted criminal.
Trump says black people love him because he’s a criminal.
I told you guys, this is what they think of us. pic.twitter.com/1h1dSNz3Xz
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) February 24, 2024
Trump also said he knows black people because they work for him, sounding a lot like a plantation owner saying his slaves are family.
Trump claims he knows blacks because they built his buildings pic.twitter.com/1kvWn85P1Z
— Biden-Harris Headquarters (@BidenHQ) February 24, 2024
It was Donald Trump who in 1989 brought death penalty charges against five black and Latino boys who had been wrongly convicted of raping a woman in New York City. In 2002, another man admitted to the rape.
After one of the accusations against Trump, one of the Central Park Five took out an ad that read: “Now, after several decades and an unfortunate and disastrous presidency, we all know exactly who Donald J. Trump is: a man who seeks to deny the justice in equity”. for others while for himself he claims only innocence,” he wrote.
In 2018, a man inspired by right-wing rhetoric echoing Trump’s warning about a caravan shot and killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue. As he did so he shouted anti-Semitic hatred.
After this mass shooting, Trump, then president, repeated a completely baseless and anti-Semitic conspiracy that the caravan was funded by George Soros, saying “A lot of people say yes” when asked by reporters whether Soros was funding the caravan .
In 2017, then-President Trump defended the white nationalists protesting in Charlottesville by saying they included “some very fine people.” After a car driven by a white nationalist crashed into a group of anti-racist protesters, Trump partly blamed the “alternative left,” saying “both sides are to blame.”
This, of course, blames anti-racist protesters for opposing racism, as if this act merited violence in return.
Trump used to push back on these types of comments, saying both the racist and anti-Semitic aspect and then also condemning it, which would earn him points for condemning the language and conspiracies he would return to.
No matter how much Trump publicly dismissed the comments, white nationalists saw him as one of their own and as someone who was spreading their beliefs.1
But now, in 2024, as the embattled former president faces 91 felony charges and has been held responsible for both sexual assault and fraud, it appears the days of dubious support for white supremacist neo-Nazis are over.
In case anyone still has any doubts, Trump’s Project 2025 is poised to infuse the United States with anti-democratic Christian nationalism.
The fact that Nazis openly mix with MAGA attendees at CPAC is another indication of where Trump plans to take this country should he win office again.
1. Stepping Out of Hate: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
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