Pledging Allegiance to Trump in the Sunshine State
At the Florida Republican Party’s annual summit, pundits and public officials competed over who loves the president most.
KISSIMMEE, Fla.—Even the Wi-Fi password made reference to President Trump: “bigredwall.”
Speaker after speaker at the Florida Republican Party’s Sunshine Summit on Friday focused on the same set of issues, a useful snapshot of what is on the mind of the GOP: how great it is that Donald Trump is president and Hillary Clinton is not. The Supreme Court. The “fake news” liberal media. Representative Maxine Waters. The deep state.
But as with other Republican events these days, it always came back to Trump, the conversation existing within a closed epistemic loop. The list of speakers was a mishmash of the kind of people who have been fixtures at conservative
