CPACing

CPAC IS AN ACRONYM WHICH, if menory serves, stands for "Conservative Political Action Committee", or maybe "Citizens Poised Against Civility". Either will suffice, being accurate. They gather together once or twice a year, to spout what to them is inviolable verity but to the sane sheer nonsense. Among their featured speakers this year is the Hungarian demagogue-dictator Viktor Orban, their hero. Just the other day his speech resulted in his receiving a standing ovation from the assembled. He reminds them of Trump, he reminds himself of Trump, thus his hero status. All he needs to do is to be defeated for reelection, then try to overthrow the Hungarian government to achieve true Trumpian status. Orban is a true Republican. He is concerned about the purity of the "white" race, and believes that the immigration of brown and black people into Europe and particularly into Hungary is a great tragedy, because it dilutes raial purity. Like Trump, like Republicans, he would quite likely prefer that all immigrants into Europe come from, oh, say... Norway. Liberals sometimes accuse right wing MAGA types of being "fascists". Meanwhile, MAGA types bend over backwards, so to speak, to justify this unkind accusation. Viktor Orban indicated that it is impossible for Christians to be racist. Really? Wherever he got this notion, he needs to revise it. The American Republican party has been described by academicians as the "white Christian party". Take a quick peek at the audience for Orban, and bear in mind that the keynote speaker for CPAC is none other than Donald J. Trump, who wishes to eliminate immigration from what he calls "shit hole countries" of Africa, and to allow immigration from, as he said, Norway. Lily white, those Norwegians. Racism permeates the Republican party. Racism is a traditional, conservative, core American value. White nationalism, Christian nationalism dwell within the conservative community, not the liberal. And thus did the Hungarian dictator admonish liberals to "go to hell", and expressed concern that the racial purity of white European Christian civilization is gravely threatened by immigration of dark skinned Muslims. Magyar ethnic purity, and all that. Appropriately, conservative racially pure Christian Republican America gave him a standing ovation. The more racist the remarks, the greater the positive response at CPAC meetings. Then came Trump, who most of his life has falsely claimed that he is of Swedish and not German ancestry, a habit he got from his grandfather and father, the former having been kicked out of Germany for criminal activity. Did Trump tell the adoring white Christian conservative crowd that windmills cause cancer, or that George Washington's army captured every airport from the British in colonial revolutionary America, or that Friendship with Italy dates to the reign of Julius Caesar? Probably not. Trump doesn't like to repeat himself; doing so exposes lies. so, in with Norwegian immigrants and out with the black and the brown toned. That'll get 'em up on their feet, applauding. A healthy does of racism goes a long way towards satisfying white Christian America, for whom racism is a core cultural value.