Conservative author Mona Charen said Sunday she welcomed the crowd’s negative response to her comments at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday, in which she criticized Republicans for embracing President Trump, Roy Moore and others.
“There is nothing more freeing than telling the truth. And it must be done, again and again, by those of us who refuse to be absorbed into this brainless, sinister, clownish thing called Trumpism, by those of us who refuse to overlook the fools, frauds and fascists attempting to glide along in his slipstream into respectability,” Charen wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times.
Charen spoke Saturday at CPAC on a panel focused on feminism and sexual abuse amid the recent #MeToo movement. Charen ripped the Republican Party for supporting politicians who are accused of sexual misconduct “because he happens to have an ‘R’ next to his name.”
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The crowd booed her, and security guards escorted her out of the room after the panel, Politico reported.
Charen, who worked for the Reagan administration and GOP former Rep. Jack Kemp, wrote Sunday that many lifelong Republicans no longer feel welcome in the GOP. Instead, she said, CPAC invited speakers who align with Trump’s views, like controversial ex-sheriff David Clarke Jr. and French far right politician Marion Le Pen.
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“For traditional conservatives, the past two years have felt like a Twilight Zone episode,” Charen wrote. “Politicians, activists and intellectuals have succumbed with numbing regularity, betraying every principle they once claimed to uphold. But there remains a vigorous remnant of dissenters.”
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CPAC speaker torches attendees for supporting "brainless, sinister, clownish thing called Trumpism" https://t.co/sizTiPAK1U pic.twitter.com/erCABZVXs0
— The Hill (@thehill) February 25, 2018
Here's @monacharenEPPC having her say https://t.co/KZYeWESGZy
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) February 25, 2018
Wow, CPAC is certainly very different than is was a few years ago; remember when it was dominated by the Ron Paul crowd?
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