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June 16, 2021 02:14 PM UTC

Least Interesting WCS In Years Could Nonetheless Get "Wild"

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  • by: Colorado Pols

This weekend the 2021 Western Conservative Summit kicks convenes at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Denver, featuring an unusually low-luminescence lineup of conservative speakers: with Rep. Lauren Boebert on the top line of invited guest stars along with such decidedly B-list conserva-celebs as Victor Davis Hanson, Frank Gaffney, and Rick “What’s That Smell” Santorum:

It’s quite a step down from the WCS’s glory days of hosting Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, now-ex Rep. Steve King of Iowa, or international far-right politicos like anti-Muslim Dutch demagogue Geert Wilders. Maybe the once-prestigious Centennial Institute needs another year to get their act together after failing to pray the COVID-19 pandemic away, or maybe Western Republicans are getting tired of conferencing in a state Republicans lose?

Either way, a press release today from a coalition of far-left groups we guess you could refer to collectively as “Antifa” suggests that events outside the Hyatt could be more newsworthy than anything going on inside:

Join the Denver Communists, Front Range Mutual Aid Network, WITCH Denver, Front Range Community Defense Collective, Anon Resistance Movements, Anti-Repression Colorado, Denver Action Network, and friends for The Western BLM-Antifa Summit—two days of fiercely jubilant opposition to the Western Conservative Summit!

The Western Conservative Summit, organized by The Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University, is a semi-annual far-right gathering and blight on Denver—and our community has a proud history of opposing this breeding ground of fascist networking & propanganda that riles up their reactionary base…

As various politicians and affiliates face lawsuits from Dominion Voting and face trials for deadly violence on January 6, 2021, the move across the street to the smaller venue of the Hyatt Regency from the much larger Colorado Convention Center makes clear that their numbers, popularity, and name-brand speakers are dwindling. This year, big names have been replaced by lesser losers like local grifter and professional victim Lauren Boebert, Lakewood’s anti-gay cake-maker Jack Phillips, Portland’s right-wing provocateur and infamous milkshake-wearer Andy Ngo, among various other d-list culture-war reactionaries.

We’ve heard that the possibility of a lefty counterprotest outside this year’s Western Conservative Summit has greatly alarmed the event’s organizers, and we of course do not condone any violence or illegal activity that might occur on either side of any confrontation. It’s interesting with that said to see the left-wing groups specifically invoke the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which is something of a pre-emptive moral gut punch to any Republican who wants to complain about anybody’s “wild protest.”

In short, Republicans are now terrified that what Trump’s minions did to the U.S. Capitol…might happen at the Hyatt. Two wrongs do not make a right, of course, so lefties would not be doing themselves or their movement any favors by live-action role playing the January 6th insurrection at the Hyatt Regency Denver this weekend. In fact a peaceful protest outside the venue would serve as a much more effective contrast and statement. There’s nothing “Antifa” stands to gain from stooping to the level of a Trump supporter in the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.

For us it’s enough to note the hypothetical irony, which is very rich indeed, and leave it at that.

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15 thoughts on “Least Interesting WCS In Years Could Nonetheless Get “Wild”

  1. Continuing the Republican Party's war on rational thinking and sanity . . . 
     

    (BTW, I see that "values" is still persona non grata, in exile, and likely never to return again to The Western Conservatives Values Summit . . .)

      1. That's so 2014 . . .

        . . . today's really nice conservative GOPers are looking to get their $130,000 worth of jollies from a stripper named Forbes who spanks them with the latest edition of Der Stürmer.

  2. “….a press release today from a coalition of far left groups…..

    Join the Denver Communists…….”   Funny that. Reminds me of the misguided far left, communist leaning, college students back in the 1960s who went to Cuba to “help the people chop sugar cane.” All done while the Castro brothers were laughing their rear ends off at the stupid gringos.

      1. I wonder if he'd bake a cake for, or sell cookies to, to a conservative Republican who is a non-theist and who despises Christian nationalism and fundamentalism? 

        1. He’d bake you a cake and sell you his wares….unless you asked him to make a custom cake with a message that offended his beliefs on, say, gay marriage or abortion. 
           

              1. Line from the 1970s vintage Billy Joel song, “Only the Good Die Young:”  “I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners have more fun.”

                On the other hand, I don’t need more cake and cookies going onto my post-pandemic waist line.

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