NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Conservatives across the globe traveled to CPAC for its annual conference last weekend. It kicked off with the International Summit featuring right-wing leaders including former U.K. prime minister Liz Truss, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador and President Javier Milei of Argentina.
“The Americans should know that you are a source of inspiration for billions of people all across the world,” Mihail Neamtu, Romanian author of The Trump Phenomenon, said.
The theme, “Where Globalism Goes to Die” reflected the far right’s growing desire for policies that focus only on domestic issues and not supporting allies or strategic alliances. For American conservatives, it means sitting on a $95 billion foreign aid bill for Ukraine and Israel.
“I think it’s probably the intellectual debate of our time… it is anti-God, anti-Christian, anti-individual,” said Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) to the Medill News Service.
