At CPAC, 'law and order' conservatives and civil libertarians

OXON HILL, MD — Law and order was a big theme of CPAC this week. So was overcriminalization. It was a tension that didn’t so much highlight a libertarian-vs-conservative divide, as much as a split between the conservative movement — which has moved in a civil libertarian direction in recent years — and Trump-world Republicans.

Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke is the most audacious and famous voice for aggressive and merciless policing. Clarke is scheduled to speak twice at CPAC and an effort to recruit him for U.S. Senate has been very visible at the conference.