CPAC today unveiled its theme for this week’s sold-out conservapalooza.
Conservative Political Action Conference Chairman Matt Schlapp revealed it exclusively to Secrets Tuesday: “America is back on track.”
The theme for the four-day convention at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center is both a bow to the massive changes President Donald Trump has introduced in his first month in office and America’s global fans who have been hoping for the country to start acting normal again, Schlapp told Secrets.
“They just want America to get back to being America. And yeah, America is back on track,” said Schlapp of both the public and the USA’s global partners.
Mostly, though, it is an acknowledgment that Trump has opened the door for the majority of people to start feeling proud again for what the country represents and reject the bullying and pressure from liberals to go woke.
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“There’s nothing around the globe that’s more important right now than Trump’s victory because it was a victory for really everybody who wants to go back to some idea or normalcy. And that’s why the whole globe is rejoicing,” said Schlapp, who also holds CPAC events around the world.
“The globalists are crying in their cereal. The rest of the people are like, ‘Hey, I think this means I get to be a mom or a dad, and I get to kind of decide what my kids read, and yeah, I get to tell them what’s right and what’s wrong, and I get to use the light switch without getting guilt. I get to buy a car, and without being told that I’m destroying the world,’” said Schlapp.
Since returning to the Oval Office for his second term, Trump has issued executive orders abolishing liberal agenda in schools, including critical race theory, banned DEI in government, stopped the coddling of transgender people and other minorities, and killed Biden’s extreme green agenda that put limits on household appliances and demanded the eventual end of fossil fuel use.
Trump has also provided support for police, border agents, and other officials who have been the subject of liberal attacks and protests.
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In return, Trump has won the support of a broad swath of the country, including from those who made up the Obama coalition, including black people, Hispanics, and younger voters.
And as important, said Schlapp, was the sidelining of liberal elites telling the rest of America and the world how to act.
“The elites who try to run us around and shame us and censor us are now no longer as powerful as they were just a few weeks ago. They’ve lost a lot of power, and they haven’t lost it to other elites. They’ve lost it to regular, everyday people that want to take back control of their lives and their families. So it’s really ironic because just like CPAC plays this role around the world, the anti-globalists are having the biggest global impact,” he added.
And hopefully, said Schlapp, Trump and his actions so far will embolden the Republican Party as the administration of former President Ronald Reagan did.
“What Trump is doing, personally is he’s inspiring politicians to stop being like the mealy-mouthed Republicans that rubber-stamped all this graft that DOGE is now uncovering because they didn’t really want to fight on spending, and they didn’t want to talk about cultural issues, and they didn’t want to do anything icky, and they didn’t want to do anything that would result in someone screaming out about it at a town hall,” he said.
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Much of that messaging is expected to be on display at the CPAC gathering.
“Reagan saved the Republican Party. Think about it, yeah. And now Trump’s giving it one more shot. If it reverts back to just being nothing, it’ll go away,” said the conservative leader, adding, “the Republican Party should write Donald Trump a thank you note. If he hadn’t run as a Republican, they’d be the dodo bird. They’d be gone. He transformed the Republican Party because he gave it muscle.”
