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Seth Cotlar
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Check out this article from 2012 reporting on the efflorescence of white nationalism at CPAC. Steve King was, of course, totally down for it...and not a single 2012 GOP presidential candidate responded to an invitation to disavow it. thenation.com/article/white-…
Consider this exhibit 352 undermining the hogwash idea that Trumpist racism "came out of nowhere" and took over what was an otherwise colorblind GOP.
The point is not that everyone at CPAC agreed with this vile crap. The point is, if you thought it was vile crap, why did you invite them to your gathering...again and again? The organizers had free will to define the boundaries of "conservatism." They decided this crap was ok.
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