About 20,000 rightwing politicians, activists and media figures gathered here, as Trump pledged to bring about the "common-sense revolution" and promised the incoming of the "golden age in America".
The wildest thing to me is realizing that while many of these people are entirely just in the pocket of the donor class. A lot of them genuinely believe that they can just tinker around the edges and things will just magically get better over time. And that this fact makes it okay for them to enrich themselves because all they need to be is a faithful steward of the institutions because inevitably the moral arc of history bends toward Justice.
The wildest thing to me is realizing that while many of these people are entirely just in the pocket of the donor class. A lot of them genuinely believe that they can just tinker around the edges and things will just magically get better over time. And that this fact makes it okay for them to enrich themselves because all they need to be is a faithful steward of the institutions because inevitably the moral arc of history bends toward Justice.