Trump became a human pseudo-event at CPAC
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Mar 06, 2019
3 minutes
Two years ago, at the dawn of the Trump administration, Kellyanne Conway predicted that 2017's CPAC would really be TPAC, or "Trump Pac." What was premature spin then is conventional wisdom now.
The Conservative Political Action Conference has always been what the great historian Daniel Boorstin called a "pseudo-event." It has no formal role within our politics and no binding power outside of it. It's part trade show, part infomercial, part convention for
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