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March 22, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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CPAC and the 'Death of Conservatism'
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
The Conservative Political Action Conference, better known as CPAC, entered yesterday.
And just about everybody agrees that conservatism is at a crossroads.
Two years ago, at the height of the presidential primaries, candidate Trump pulled out of a speaking slot in the face of threats the audience would stage a mass walkout.
At that time, people who wore MAGA hats were jeered.
Now he's being treated as the conservative movement's greatest hero.
In this year's CPAC poll, President Trump drew a 93% approval rating.
Of course, for some, this represents nothing less than the end of conservatism.
As National Review's Richard Brookhiser says, the conservative movement is no more.
Its destroyers are Donald Trump and his admirers.
William Crystal at the Weekly Standard agrees, saying Trump is the proximate, the efficient cause of the collapse of the conservative movement.
It's hard to see what they really mean.
He's actually governed like a typical conservative, spending most of his first year on conservative projects like tax reduction and trying to kill Obamacare.
What they really don't like about him, aside from his wildness, is his alleged support for white identity.
Apparently, it's President Trump who has somehow made it possible to invite Marine Le Pen, the niece of the leader of the French National Front, to speak at CPAC this year.
That infuriated people who call themselves true conservatives.
Glenn Beck said she represents dangerous populism and nationalism.
Bill Kristol wondered whether she was the most distasteful speaker at CPAC.
Jonah Goldberg said she's not a classical liberal.
And Evan McMullin, the man a lot of people who call themselves true conservatives voted for in 2016, says she's an anti-Semite and a tool of Russia.
But Marian Le Pen wants to conserve what true conservatives have always wanted to conserve, her people and her nation.
As she said in her CPAC speech, We don't want this atomized world of individual without gender, without father, without mother, and without nation.
She called immigration a threat to French identity, and I quote, After 40 years of massive immigration, Islamic lobbies, and political correctness, France is in the process of passing from the eldest daughter of the Catholic Church to the little niece of Islam.
And terrorism is only the tip of the iceberg.
She's right.
Terrorism is just the tip of the iceberg.
If France becomes an Islamic society, it will be through mass immigration.
The French won't suddenly start throwing blankets over their women because of a couple of terrorist attacks.
President Trump understood this during the campaign.
That's why he proposed a Muslim ban.
I wish he had stuck to his guns.
The basic question is, does a country have the right to resist demographic conquest?
The media and so-called progressives clearly believe it doesn't, at least if it's a white country.
No human is illegal is their slogan.
And you get Pakistanis like Mohsin Hamid writing in The Guardian lecturing us Americans.
On how migration is a fundamental human right.
Really? Then how come the India-Pakistan border in Kashmir looks like this?
Don't Hindu Indians have the fundamental right to migrate to Muslim Pakistan?
Somehow, it's a fundamental right only when they want to come live with us.
The European Union seems to think migration is a fundamental right.
It is trying to force Muslims onto Eastern European countries As Marion Le Pen put it in her speech, France is no longer free.
After 1,500 years of existence, we must now fight for our independence.
Well, not that long ago, National Review, which used to set the tone for conservatism, understood what independence means.
In 1957, William F. Buckley defended segregation.
In the 1960s, Russell Kirk wrote that black voting rights in South Africa would, quote, bring anarchy and the collapse of civilization.
The old National Review praised Jean Raspé's Camp of the Saints.
The self-styled true conservatives gave up on all that years ago.
But if conservatism can't defend a culture, a nation, the people itself, What's it trying to conserve?
Andrew Breitbart, who had a profound influence on American conservatism, said that politics is downstream from culture.
He was right.
But culture is downstream from race.
Any movement that refuses to recognize that can't conserve anything.
Lefties understand that.
And that's why they wave Mexican flags when they protest Donald Trump.
They know what's downstream from what.
And you know, conservatives probably understand it, too.
They're just too afraid to admit it.
And that's why they are so skittish about immigration.
Immigration is such a burning issue, it keeps Congress from even voting a budget, for heaven's sake.
But out of the hundreds of speakers, And panelists at CPAC this year, there was just one panel on immigration.
Just one!
However, and this is important, when David Beer of the Libertarian Cato Institute started rabbiting on about how wonderful immigrants are, the audience booed and jeered.
At another panel, when left-wing radio host Rick Unger claimed that Mexican immigrants are really conservatives, the audience started chanting, Build the wall.
Build the wall.
When Mona Turin criticized Donald Trump and said it was a disgrace to invited Marine Le Pen, the audience laughed at her and booed.
CPAC has obviously lost control of its audience.
And that's because CPAC has obviously lost its backbone, if it ever had one.
For example, Pamela Geller, who takes a strong stance on Islam, had put together a panel on freedom of speech.
On the Internet, one of her panelists, Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit, had angered the left by saying that some of the pro-gun control students who got so much media attention after the Florida shooting had been coached.
A CPAC board member told Ms. Geller she had to cut Jim Hoft from her panel, her panel on free speech.
Ms. Geller told CPAC, no Hoft, no panel.
And CPAC's reaction?
In that case, no panel.
No panel on free speech.
If this is conservatism, who needs it?
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