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How CPAC’s conservatives strainted the gnat and then swallowed the camel

By Noemie Emery
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How CPAC’s conservatives strainted the gnat and then swallowed the camel

“You can’t handle the truth!”

So Jack Nicholson’s character told Tom Cruise, playing a military lawyer in the 1991 movie “A Few Good Men.” Neither, apparently, could most of the people at the Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend, when our friend Mona Charen told them that they and their movement had been sold out by their soi-disant leaders in their race to embrace President Trump.

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