When Liz Truss blames shadowy elitists for her failings as prime minister, she is leaning into a tried-and-tested formula.
A person signs a bus wrapped with an image of former President Donald Trump during the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 22, 2024.
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What we are already hearing today from those leading the “no” campaign is an echo chamber of Trumpist sentiments for his supporters and acolytes in Australia.
Supporters listen to former President Donald Trump at the CPAC meeting in Maryland in March 2023.
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A scholar of extremism attended the CPAC meeting in March, in part to try to understand political polarization, and only saw signs of a worsening divide.
In this July 2020 photo, former president Donald Trump stands at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.
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As Donald Trump prepares to address the Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, here’s how other former presidents have occupied their time after leaving the White House.
Nigel Farage is due to make a return to Australia at this weekend’s CPAC event, alongside Tony Abbott, Raheem Kassam and other right-wing speakers.
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The theme of the conference is ‘protect the future’, an allusion to the culture wars that conservatives are waging against the left. There are fears this could include alt-right messages of hate.
The Raheem Kassam visa dispute has now developed into a “free speech versus hate speech” debate on the international stage.
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There are calls to ban the far-right former Breitbart editor from Australia. He’s due to speak at the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference.
Last week the race for the Republic presidential nomination was kicked off in earnest by the Conservative Political Action’s annual Conference. Yes, they all, predictably, want to “save our country” from…