Trump evolved CPAC beyond conservatism. Is there still room for Reagan Republicans? | Opinion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

89% : Trump is the perfect speaker for what CPAC has become.
59% : " Over at CPAC in Oxon Hill, Maryland, about 10 miles south of Washington, D.C., Trump is expected to speak this weekend after his co-President Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance addressed the crowd Thursday.
50% : Compare that with what CPAC has become - a parade of prancing personalities, all trying to one-up each other in toadyism to Trump, where provocation is everything and the actual policy of governing is, at best, an afterthought.
42% : This weekend, its activists will explore ways to contain the convulsion of norm-busting and government enfeeblement that Trump has pushed in his first month back in the White House.
26% : Anyone who disagrees with Trump and his CPAC pals is a "global Marxist" who must be hated.
23% : On the agenda: Trump's tariffs on allies and embrace of geopolitical foes, how to lower costs for health care and housing, and a big focus on urging Republican members of Congress to stand up to Trump when they disagree with him.
16% : Dying of brain cancer in 2018, McCain was jeered when Trump derided him in a noxious CPAC speech.
12% : Opinion: Congressional Republicans worry about Trump's cuts at home, but they barely speak up I'd bet that the late President Reagan, with his "Tear Down This Wall" speech before the fall of the Soviet Union, would be outraged at the MAGA crowd at CPAC cheering Trump's flagrant fealty to a Russian president who illegally launched a war against Ukraine and a Republican-controlled Congress chock full of politicians who would really like to stand up to Russia about all that but won't dare cross Trump because they fear his wrath.

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