I am watching Trump at CPAC.
The smarmy, smug attendees, especially the young ones, are despicable. The false patriotism is the only thing that unites all of them. What is the fixation with the flag ? The voters who supported this thief loved the flag too, but theirs was the Confederate battle flag which lead hundreds of thousands of their duped forebears to death against the very flag now fetishized at CPAC. This CPAC crowd was spawned by a mythologized version of Reagan, united by and committed to cutting taxes for decades now, so they support Trump because they envision $$ taken from the safety net and channeled into their already overstuffed pockets, as opposed to the voter deplorables (absent at CPAC, largely a Heritage Foundation elitist set) united by hate of minorities and of anybody getting anything not going to them. What truly unites these two disparate groups is their lip-service Christian identity, which constitutes my biggest problem with them - hate/exclusion of struggling refugees, and fetishization of self- interest as their dominant, maybe only, moral virtue, constitute the epitome of precisely that which the Sermon on the Mount preaches against; none of these people can call themselves real Christians. CPAC is now a union of the despicables and the deplorables, a sum of everything that's wrong with the American character.