During Barack Obama’s presidency, speakers — Trump included — warned that Democrats would “fundamentally transform” America and saddle children with unpayable debt. On its first day, this year’s conference portrayed a conservative movement that was winning the present and the future, in the position, finally, to smash the left. Members of the administration who attended the conference argued that Trump was implementing an agenda that conservatives had dreamed of for years. The conference’s exhibit hall contained little about potential Democratic presidential candidates; the only one that stood out was a stand-up of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass. Onstage, the Democratic Party was alternately mocked as pathetic or described as an increasingly radical menace.

Source: Washington Post February 23, 2018 00:45 UTC