Commentary
Trump's Triumphant Return
by Adam de Angeli
Posted February 28, 2021
President Trump's keynote address at CPAC buried any notion that the Republican Party is no longer his.
The audience roared in applause throughout Trump's 90-minute address, the theme of which was that our movement is just getting started.
He kicked off by putting to bed the speculation that he would be starting a third party. "We have the Republican Party! It's going to unite and be stronger than ever before!"
It was a quintessential Trump speech. His takedown of Joe Biden and the Democrats was brutal and full of policy.
He spent more than ten minutes just taking down Biden's immigration policy. He exposed the Biden agenda on ending our energy independence, submitting to China, and keeping children out of schools. He even called out the Biden administration's efforts to ruin women's sports.
In substance and form, it was a total contrast to Hillary Clinton, who skulked off in defeat in 2016 and left her minions to make ridiculous fabrications about the election being stolen by Russia.
For his part, Trump stuck to his guns on election fraud, repeatedly noting that swing states broke their own laws to rig the election, as Michigan's did. He exposed the Time magazine confession piece, observing that "they couldn’t hold it in. They had to brag about it."
Best of all, he called out the Supreme Court for the cowards they are.
Preach it, Mister President!
Incidentally, CPAC's organizers were clearly in full support, hosting no less than seven panels on election fraud.
It established beyond a doubt: conservatives are not going to let the Democrats and their servants in the mass media browbeat us into conceding the election.
Near the end, he named every House and Senate Republican that supported his impeachment, with a particular slap at "the warmonger, a person that loves seeing our troops fighting": Liz Cheney.
When he mentioned Mitch McConnell, the audience erupted in booes.
He closed by sarcastically hinting at his 2024 run for re-election:
It was classic Trump, the happy warrior.
It was the moment we were all waiting for: to see him back in action and unshaken.
The last CPAC I attended was in 2016. It was at that awkward moment when Trump was the clear front-runner but hadn't yet clenched the nomination. Everyone speaking at CPAC that year despised Trump. Most attendees were rooting for Cruz or Rubio. I remember buying a Trump button off of a fellow guest because the none of the vendors carried them.
To Liz Cheney's chagrin, those days aren't coming back. The GOP is no longer the party of globalism.
It's Trump's populist movement, now and for the foreseeable future.
The audience roared in applause throughout Trump's 90-minute address, the theme of which was that our movement is just getting started.
He kicked off by putting to bed the speculation that he would be starting a third party. "We have the Republican Party! It's going to unite and be stronger than ever before!"
It was a quintessential Trump speech. His takedown of Joe Biden and the Democrats was brutal and full of policy.
He spent more than ten minutes just taking down Biden's immigration policy. He exposed the Biden agenda on ending our energy independence, submitting to China, and keeping children out of schools. He even called out the Biden administration's efforts to ruin women's sports.
In substance and form, it was a total contrast to Hillary Clinton, who skulked off in defeat in 2016 and left her minions to make ridiculous fabrications about the election being stolen by Russia.
For his part, Trump stuck to his guns on election fraud, repeatedly noting that swing states broke their own laws to rig the election, as Michigan's did. He exposed the Time magazine confession piece, observing that "they couldn’t hold it in. They had to brag about it."
Best of all, he called out the Supreme Court for the cowards they are.
They should be ashamed of themselves for what they’ve done to our country. They didn’t have the guts or the courage to make the right decision. They didn’t want to talk about it. You had the case led by the great State of Texas. 18 states went in: “You don’t have standing. Oh, let’s not talk about it.” They didn’t have the guts to do what should be done, and that’s on top of all of the other forms of cheating. But this is the most basic of all, they would have local courts and local politicians change the rules, in some cases, a day or two before the election. This should never be allowed to happen to another presidential candidate or presidential race, should never be allowed to happen.
Regardless of your political views, this should concern you as a constitutional matter. The Supreme court, again, didn’t have the guts or the courage to do anything about it, and neither did other judges.
Preach it, Mister President!
Incidentally, CPAC's organizers were clearly in full support, hosting no less than seven panels on election fraud.
It established beyond a doubt: conservatives are not going to let the Democrats and their servants in the mass media browbeat us into conceding the election.
Near the end, he named every House and Senate Republican that supported his impeachment, with a particular slap at "the warmonger, a person that loves seeing our troops fighting": Liz Cheney.
When he mentioned Mitch McConnell, the audience erupted in booes.
He closed by sarcastically hinting at his 2024 run for re-election:
Don’t ever forget it. With your help, we will take back the House. We will win the Senate. And then, a Republican president will make a triumphant return to the White House. And I wonder who that will be? I wonder who that will be? Who, who, who will that be? I wonder...
Standing before you today, I am supremely confident that for our movement, for our party, and for our country, our brightest days are just ahead. And that together we will make America prouder, freer, stronger and greater than it ever has been before. Thank you CPAC, God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you all. Thank you.
It was classic Trump, the happy warrior.
It was the moment we were all waiting for: to see him back in action and unshaken.
The last CPAC I attended was in 2016. It was at that awkward moment when Trump was the clear front-runner but hadn't yet clenched the nomination. Everyone speaking at CPAC that year despised Trump. Most attendees were rooting for Cruz or Rubio. I remember buying a Trump button off of a fellow guest because the none of the vendors carried them.
To Liz Cheney's chagrin, those days aren't coming back. The GOP is no longer the party of globalism.
It's Trump's populist movement, now and for the foreseeable future.
