Documents show the Conservative Partnership Institute is pushing its far-right agenda at events involving GOP members
A powerful, rightwing lobbying group is promoting a hard-right policy agenda and cementing ties between the Republican party and the far right at at least 21 events involving senators, members of Congress, and both junior and senior political aides, documents obtained by the Guardian show.
The documents offer previously unreported details of Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) trainings and “bootcamps” for congressional staff at CPI’s sprawling Maryland ranch, and lavish, star-studded retreats for members of Congress – mostly members of the far-right Freedom caucus – at a string of Florida resorts.
They also show how CPI, widely described as the “nerve center of the Maga movement”, enlisted its own network of affiliated organizations along with like-minded far-right organizations – some classified as hate groups by experts – as well as individual extremists to promote anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine policies, along with others premised on the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.
Holy shit.
Like, I can see a brief of “thrust stage with 3 screens, entrances between the screens, and access to the screens for manual pointing” might lead to this stage design. The cutouts at the side might be able to be justified for camera access.
But that cutout triangle in the middle would be a pain to engineer and a health & safety nightmare to justify. So the cutout triangle is absolutely deliberate, and will have been discussed in depth. The only reason to keep it is because someone knew.
Edit.
Also, considering their logo is star shaped, I’m surprised the center thrust isn’t more star shaped. Seems odd to go from 5 points and many sides to 4 points and 4 sides. Especially considering they are fine with the engineering and h&s justification of a triangle cutout mid-stage