“Don’t get mad,” don’t be “too technical”: Ready for the fight After a string of disappointments in the last election, Republicans rolled out to their campaigners this week a supposedly infallible recipe for winning the White House in the year 2024
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“In 2022, many of us were disappointed because there wasn’t the Republican wave we were hoping for,” Corey DeAngelis assured before a panel from CPAC, the annual high-conservative massacre being organized in the Washington suburbs through Saturday.
But the Democrats “woke a long-sleeping giant,” the conservative in the navy suit asserts. In the next presidential election, he promises to activists, the conservatives will “make the socialists cry”.
To win in 2024, it is enough to respect 45 simple maxims, affirms Dena Espenscheid, member of a group of the Leadership Institute specialized in the training of curators.
Apply these commandments and victory is “almost guaranteed,” she enthuses.
To his left is his colleague Carly Tomaine, pointing to a presentation projected onto the screen:
“Don’t ever get upset unless it can help you.” “Don’t get too technical — the single mom from Ohio doesn’t care — instead, quote real facts,” she said in the lobby of a posh Maryland hotel .
“You have to act quickly,” adds Dena Espenscheid. The most important thing, she emphasizes, is “to get out of the house”, to take concrete measures instead of posting on social networks, the speaker believes.
The goal of these activists is to train as soon as they have a minute, she continues:
Online or in person, ‘when you can’t breastfeed your baby at 2am’…
The participants, wearing hats and pins in the colors of the American flag, nod their heads and take religious notes.
Upon leaving, they are all given a small bag containing a copy of the US Constitution, a pamphlet entitled “How to Win” and a small mint.
And the questions are buzzing: “How do you do that when you live in a democratic state?”, “How do you mobilize against Biden’s health policy?”, “What if you want to ban abortion pills in Washington?”
All of these activists have come to attend this major political convention where ultraconservative tenors are expected to attend, including former President Donald Trump and former Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday.
Installed in front of the room, a red-haired woman suddenly calls out: “And what are we going to do with all these elections that are being stolen?” she asks, alluding to the allegations of fraud made by Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, repeated by the relevant authorities denied.
Whisper, point finger. He is asked to sit down.
Illustrating the bipartisan disagreements over the former president’s role, the play is gripped by a strange uneasiness on several occasions.
“Not everyone loves Trump, you know what I mean?” Ryan Halasz, a 19-year-old conservative, told the outlet.