The meeting of this think tank sounds for all the world like a convocation of The Illuminati. We are told that it is “a secretive event” attended by an exclusive group of wealthy elites, meeting in a glamorous and off the beaten track locale in order to decide the fate of the world — conservative world, in any event. What makes this particular meeting interesting, is that it’s a group of Republicans getting together to discuss the future of the party and isn’t it a bit unusual that the supposed head of the party, the frontrunner for 2024 has been left off the guest list?
Intriguing. No Trump and Mitch McConnell is running the show. CBS News:
Trump was not invited to the exclusive event, which will be attended by some of the Republican Party’s biggest donors, according to two people familiar with the event who were not authorized to discuss it.
The conservative American Enterprise Institute’s annual World Forum this year will be held at The Cloister, a high-end hotel complex in Sea Island, and feature invite-only discussions, meals and access to miles of private beach. The schedule for this year’s forum was obtained by CBS News.
The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit watchdog that focuses on corruption and abuses of power, has described the gathering as a “secretive” event “where industry titans and GOP megadonors [mingle] with mostly Republican power players at an exclusive, ‘off-the-record’ retreat.” Past attendees have included billionaire executives from global manufacturing, energy, and financial companies.
The makeup of this year’s conference reflects AEI’s drift in recent years. While the nonpartisan — but historically conservative — group has previously supported aspects of Trump’s agenda, many of its scholars have become critics of the former president, particularly after he refused to concede defeat in the 2020 presidential election. […]
One of the key speakers at this week’s gathering will be Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has been working behind the scenes to recruit candidates who come from a more traditional Republican mold, in terms of both policy positions and rhetoric, as he works to reclaim the Senate majority later this year in the midterm elections. […]
In 2019, the AEI World Forum drew attention when it was reported that then-Vice President Mike Pence was sharply questioned by former Vice President Dick Cheney about the Trump administration’s foreign policy, highlighting how various players in AEI’s orbit have long been uncomfortable with elements of Trump’s populist and nationalist policies.
It is unclear whether Pence was invited to the 2022 event.
Now that is interesting. Pence is dead in the water politically anyhow, but if this group leaves him off the guest list, then it’s official.
Trump is not about to be outdone. He’s holding his own counter programming event, a MAGA rally in Florence, South Carolina on March 12.
This could be the beginning of the end for Trump. Intriguingly, Elise Stefanik will be there and it makes you wonder if she isn’t about to renounce Trump and work her way back into whatever mainstream GOP fold McConnell is defining as the comeback of the GOP, sans Trump.
Maybe Trump and the GOP will go their separate ways. That might work out just fine. Trump can still be free to grift and then he can put down everybody, the Democrats, the RINOs, McConnell and Liz Cheney in particular. This could be a real thing. Let’s keep an eye on this.
Hopefully this IS a real thing and hopefully, it will split the gqp into warring factions who will never again vote for each other’s candidates. Imagine a world where the “conservative voice” is never again to have to be officially endured. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of idiots.
How does CBS get away with this bald-faced lie: “”While the nonpartisan–but decidedly conservative–group . . .?”
When it’s ALWAYS backing Republicans, when it’s using its current meeting to discuss recruiting candidates from a “more traditional Republican mold,” when it’s being attended by “the Republican Party’s biggest donors,” you lose ANY consideration of being described as “nonpartisan.”
That’s like saying Fox News really was ever truly “fair and balanced.”
I think it would be a case of money grubbing mindless whores. We give our collective respect to types like that. That is why our present ‘democracy’ is full of these morally bankrupt demons.