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Originally Posted by Paul D
Joke is on the biker guy. Like why does he think Spencer is even AT that thing in the first place? "You don't represent us! You're a piece of ****!" Yah, sure, ok, but Spencer apparently held court and talked to reporters for an hour at the Gaylord Convention Center (*snicker*). He's not doing that at goddamn Netroots Nation is he? He's got the platform at CPAC.
Maybe biker guy just scootered on in from his hillbilly shanty shack out in the woods or something and has never heard of CPAC or been to it before. If he had been there anytime in the last several years he'd have witnessed panels, booths, and sponsorships featuring straight-up white nationalists all over the damn place. (Some of them set up by Breitbart News (sic)... whose staff or alumni are now like 1/2 the damn speakers at the whole thing. Breitbart as recently as a couple of years ago was kind of on the fringe of CPAC, but now the whole thing is totally taken over by Bannon and crew.)
Frank Gaffney is a swivel-eyed lunatic who would be laughed out of any self-respecting gathering for his long list of crazy crap. But, Gaffney has been at CPAC for years.... until around 2011 when he got BANNED from CPAC... not for his non-stop rabid anti-Muslim hate speech, but for his theory that CPAC itself was being taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood through Grover Norquist! lol. Ofc, that ban was short-lived and he's been back at CPAC since then with his usual stuff. What's he doing now? Oh, yah, he's an advisor to Trump!
But, as reprehensible as Frank Gaffney might be to anyone still with their wits about them, I'm not even talking about the likes of him. At CPAC it's a spectrum and there has always been plenty of even further out right-wing types like Peter Brimelow and the VDARE crowd. One time recently there was even a panel on "Multiculturalism" put on by John Derbyshire!
So, sure, CPAC, not for white nationalists but #1 gateway drug for conservatives who want to go that next step.
From that article on Spencer today, “They are nothing but garden variety left-wing fascists". This is dumb as hell but it reminds me of the old thing about them being so far right they are kind of far left. At CPAC you have ALWAYS found elements of that ultra-right hanging around. Biker guy has had his head in the sand.