By james art 
It is difficult, if not impossible to parody what has already become a parody of itself. And maybe when it accepts the measure of the first conference on the principles of last weekend in downtown Washington, parody is not quite the right register to sound. The disgust will do well.
The principles first of all are mixed as an anti-magician alternative to the Conservative Political Conference Conference or CPAC. As such, the time of the summit, which on Sunday afternoon was interrupted briefly by the fear of bombs, it was no accident. A few miles south, beyond the river from Alexandria, CPAC was underway. Vice President JD VANCE, fresh, giving our European friends a lesson on how self -created democracies should To behave, he was welcomed with a hero. For comparison, the star force of the FIRST principles was definitely a second speed theater for Desantis Die-Hards.
The composition of the guest lecturer was who was in the Republican Party, which fortunately no longer exists.
Among the headliners was Arco-Neokon was Christol. Cristol is an attachment of speakers and the podcast chain over the years since Rupert Murdoch closed his parcel neo -conservative, The weekly standardS As Tucker Carlson once notes, “in ordinary circumstances, Bill would be known for being wrong.” But a loan where it is due, he took this talent and became the premiere ignorant of the country Nevertump.
In the eyes of the self -styled defenders of the Republic, such as those who gathered at the first conference of principles, Christol is not one of the leading villains of our recent and soaked blood past, but a source of comfort. It soothes its declining conservative followers that the Trump era is a deviation – the country has been relaxing from its senses for a moment – and we, we, Faithfully Elite, just wait for the barbarians.
Joining this respected company was nothing but former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. After giving up the Republican presidential race in February 2016, he returned to Trump’s good grace. Until May 2016, he was appointed chairman of Trump’s president. But when the governor was unceremoniously shown at the door, Trump moved from a potential meal ticket to, to Christie’s story, “Coward” Putin’s Marione, and “The Cheapest Straight I’ve ever met.”
Everything in one day work for Christie, who, after illegally closing the approach to the George Washington Bridge in 2013, hung his deputy head of the headquarters Bridget Ann Kelly, a single mother of four, to dry. She is serving 13 months in prison. He is running for president.
And then there is Alberto Gonzalez. For an organization that is mixed as opposition to lawlessness and CEO out of control, the inclusion of Gonzalez, a former prosecutor at George Bush, is really a small leader. According to the human rights lawyer Scott Horton, even a cursory inventory of the crimes committed by Gonzalez, will include “perjury, violations of the Luke Act, misrepresentation of Congress, subordination of false testimony and to prevent justice” so as not to say nothing about His role “in the introduction of torture into the practices for questioning intelligence in violation of Geneva Conventions and The Hague Convention on the Land War. ”
Of course, there were the usual suspects by Echo Chamber Conservatism Inc. Graduates from the ill -fated Weekly who are now running under the banners of Bulwark and Sending They were among the presented guests. Stephen Hayes, Author of A 2004 Book About the Alleged “Connection” between obama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein Appeared Alongside Jonah Goldberg, Another Purvey, in the Early Years of Iraq’s Leader and Al Qaeda Were in Cahoots. Goldberg lectures on the audience about the importance of truth in politics.
At one point it is already enough.
These ghosts of GOP’s past 2016 with enthusiastic assistance of corporate and inherited media such as CNN and MSNBC, drank their reputation and emerged as lonely, bold and bold principle Defenders of the US Constitutional Order – but only after spending most of the last 25 years, doing their best level to throw it away.
Thehe actually The reason these people fell with Trump was because they perceived it not as a threat to the constitution, but as a threat to their careers. Take a look at Christie and super-hekens John Bolton. These opportunists looked at Trump with stars in their eyes when he gave them room on the table – but after he removed the chair from under them, they became his most vocal opponents. You will have to be as unconditional as the former Pentagon press secretary Alice Farah (who, as it happens, was another revered guest on the principles first) to think that there is something more at the work of one of these confines than the complaint – the complaint – Trump’s respect that Trump had taken away from their party without as much as a sweat was broken.
The background of these conferences for the cross-city is the brewery battle over Elbridge Colby-Certain Confirmation as Deputy Policy’s Secretary is contested by the ghosts of the Republican Party’s past.
GOP zombie, including senators Mitch McConnell, Roger Wicker, Lisa Murkovski and, of course, the same members of the Inc. Conservatism, which brought us, among other newspapers, Iraq, Guantanamo, torture, black sites, ISIS, and new and dangerous Nuclear Weapons Race, are determined to deraille for the fact that is insufficient in awe of the neo -conservatism a record of 9/11.
The problem that the zombie Coach faces is that even if they are able to block our names, their brand of republics has approximately as popular attractiveness as Cristi’s presidential run: Zero.
Meanwhile, as Politico pointed last week, Vance and other administration officials send “a clear message to the world that Republican foreign policy, as they knew it was dead – and they don’t regret it.”
It seems that the non -inferior principles have not yet received the note.