The New Right Celebrates Trump at a Conservative Conference and Sidesteps Inconsistencies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : "During 75 minutes at the podium on Sunday, Trump ticked through many of his usual pledges and policy ideas.
56% : One speaker calls for a 'revolutionary moment'That ethos permeated convention halls and meeting rooms awash in Trump paraphernalia - the "Make America Great Again" hats,
53% : "Thank you, God, for sending us Donald Trump," said Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk as Trump took the stage.
47% : Speakers and attendees at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2024 hailed Trump and billionaire Elon Musk for initially scuttling a bipartisan agreement to keep government open.
43% : "I just want everything Trump said he was going to do," said Andrew Graves, a 39-year-old former Disney employee who now works as an Arizona organizer for Turning Point.
38% : "In Trump, Pacheco sees a transformative figure.
37% : Summing up his intentions, Trump opted for politically fuzzy rhetoric.
36% : But he also insisted that doesn't mean Trump won't cut spending.
31% : Trump's supporters differ on what they wantInterviews with people at AmericaFest and arguments from speakers illustrated that, beyond fealty to Trump, the new right in America is defined philosophically by anti-establishment sentiment, staunchly conservative social mores and vocal declarations of patriotism -- not a uniform policy consensus.
31% : Ben Shapiro, another commentator, offered assurances that Trump would rethink tariffs if they "are in fact inflationary."
27% : Bannon conceded Trump did not get his way on the debt ceiling vote but said he eventually would.
25% : That Trump failed to achieve his central goals -- with 38 Republicans voting against a plan backed by Trump and Musk -- seemed unimportant to Bannon and others who welcomed Trump to the conference's Sunday finale.
23% : T-shirts emblazoned with the bloodied candidate after Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
19% : "President Trump came back from the political dead," Bannon said, framing Trump's sweep of seven battleground states as a landslide.
13% : Retired Gen. Michael Flynn, a firebrand forced out of Trump's first White House who Trump has suggested he would bring back once in office, insisted conservatives are not isolationist even as he assailed the Pentagon footprint around the world.

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