At CPAC, talk of infanticide and socialism point to dark turn for conservative politics by alexnazaryan
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Starving people eating dog food. Parents aborting babies after taking them home from the hospital. That was the dark vision — of creeping socialism and of abortion unrestrained — that marked the opening day of the Conservative Political Action Conference , the annual gathering of conservatives that offers an untrammeled view of Republican perspectives, and a sign of where the party is headed politically.
It was a label CPAC speakers were happy to apply, repeating a line of attack advanced by President Trump in recent weeks. “We don’t have to look any further than Venezuela,” Meadow said, where the socialist government of Nicolás Maduro is in the midst of a violent, painful collapse. "We’ve got to get to a point where we celebrate capitalism,” Meadows urged. Meanwhile, Matt Schlapp of the American Conservative Union, which hosts CPAC, expressed relief that “eight years of socialism under Obama” had come to an end. He did not specify how Obama’s program constituted socialism.
“Infanticide” was invoked several times in the first several hours of CPAC, far eclipsing references to the Trump economy, a sign that conservatives believe they can retain the White House and Senate — and perhaps reclaim the House — by focusing on cultural rather than economic issues. Speaking shortly after Walker, anti-abortion activist Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B. Anthony List said of Democratic efforts to enshrine Roe v.
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