The CPAC Model for a new generation. Mean, crude and dumb. Just like the last generation.
In this post, I mentioned the Trumpen Youth conference down in Florida where conservative icons, Rudy Giuliani, Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump appeared before their adoring fans. This report from the conference shows that the new Millennial and Gen Z wingnut generation aren’t any more clever than their Gen X and Boomer forebears were when they were their age.
Considering how vibrant and creative this new generation is generally, they’re just sad:
A few times speakers said something so wild it stopped me dead in my tracks. Like when Ann Coulter compared Ilhan Omar to Josef Mengele. Or when Dinesh D’souza said, “To me democratic socialism differs from socialism kind of in the way that gang rape differs from individual rape.”
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“The left can’t meme,” he said. “We’re having more fun than them. We’re way funnier. We’re more awesome.”On big screens at the side of the stage was a slideshow of conservative memes to underline Johnson’s point. The memes included:
- Baby Yoda wearing a TPUSA shirt and hat, with a laughing Kanye in the background.
- The painting American Gothic but with Greta Thunberg and David Hogg’s faces photoshopped on to it.
- A photo of AOC looking confused, captioned “So am I the president now?”
More than once, Johnson paused mid sentence because he was laughing at the memes too hard.
“They don’t want to speak your language, they don’t understand you.” Johnson, 32, said. “They don’t understand us. The way that we communicate.”
They’ve always spoken in this cult-like language and told themselves that they are so clever and funny that the humorless libs just don’t get the joke. As I said, sad.
This has nothing to do with Trump. Young American conservatives have always been pathetic.
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