Guardian, UK - A powerful, rightwing lobbying group is promoting a hard-right policy agenda and cementing ties between the Republican party and the far right at at least 21 events involving senators, members of Congress, and both junior and senior political aides, documents obtained by the Guardian show. The documents offer previously unreported details of Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) trainings and “bootcamps” for congressional staff at CPI’s sprawling Maryland ranch, and lavish, star-studded retreats for members of Congress – mostly members of the far-right Freedom caucus – at a string of Florida resorts. They also show how CPI, widely described as the “nerve center of the Maga movement”, enlisted its own network of affiliated organizations along with like-minded far-right organizations – some classified as hate groups by experts – as well as individual extremists to promote anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine policies, along with others premised on the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.
The revelations raise further questions about the powerful influence exercised on Capitol Hill staffers by the well-heeled NGO, and the extent of its successes in moving Republican elected officials even further to the right. Heidi Beirich, co-founder and chief strategy officer at the Global Project against Hate and Extremism, said speakers featured at CPI events included some “seriously extreme people”, and indicated “how far right the Maga movement has become”
Daily Kos - Most of her supporters voted for
Haley as a way to stop Trump. Haley’s announcement today that she
intends to vote for Trump won’t raise their opinion of him, it will only
lower their opinion of her. When she says, as she said again today,
that she wished Donald Trump would “reach out” to her voters, she’s
speaking words that may sound like English, but make no sense. The only
way Donald Trump could reach out to Trump-skeptical Republicans is by
pleading guilty to the many criminal charges against him and vowing to
devote the rest of his life to restitution for the victims of his many
civil frauds.
It’s neither surprising nor disappointing that Haley has aligned
herself with Trump after inveighing so fiercely against his utter
unfitness for office. His rivals always do. Ted Cruz did it after Donald
Trump insulted his wife and accused his father of involvement in the
assassination of John F. Kennedy. Marco Rubio did it after Trump’s
relentless mockery of his height, character, and intellect. Compared to
those gross self-humiliations, it’s a relatively small thing to submit
to a candidate who merely called you a “birdbrain,” scored xenophobic
points off your name, and implied that your military-deployed husband
had gone overseas to run away from you.
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