CPAC chair plans more conservative gatherings around the world
Source: NPR
May 29, 20254:20 AM ET
American and European populists, nationalists and conservatives are gathering today in Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán praised President Trump. "The Trump tsunami swept through the world and changed the entire world," Orbán told attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as he opened the two-day meeting in Budapest. "It gave back hope to the world. We are no longer suffocating in the woke sea."
In recent years, American conservatives have viewed Hungary — and Orbán — as an aspirational model for their own movement. He's succeeded not just in winning four consecutive elections but also implementing his agenda, backed by a supermajority in parliament.
But after 15 years of leadership, critics say Orbán has corroded democratic institutions. The European Commission is withholding billions of euros allocated for Hungary over breaches of E.U. law. Most of the union's members seek tougher action over the country's effective ban on upcoming pride celebrations.
Orbán also has his champions. They include the American chairman of CPAC, Matt Schlapp, who credits the Hungarian leader's electoral successes to his policies, including those aimed at stopping migration. Schlapp also says more international leaders are looking to the U.S., and President Trump, for direction. And he's planning to expand his organization's foothold across other cities around the world.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/29/nx-s1-5396889/cpac-matt-schlapp-conservatives
Wherever they go, they need to stay and never come back.
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I seriously hope that this nightmare administration is the end of MAGA. Fuck them all. 
But seriously, wtf is with all these multiple CPACs occuring every few weeks? The amount of blow consumed by those in charge is probably more than the amount used to make Popeye the movie. 