It fell to Steve Bannon, far-right podcaster and political pugilist, to wake up the crowd with a jolt. “Don’t fall for the primary stuff,” he urged in a fiery speech. “It’s not relevant. We don’t have time for on-the-job training [instead of] a man that gave us four years of peace and prosperity.”
What had been a low-energy Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) erupted in cheers. It did again when Bannon