{"id":538,"date":"2026-07-19T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2026-07-19T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:10:10","slug":"inside-liz-trusss-america-brained-cpac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Inside Liz Truss&#8217;s America-brained CPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>What is a conservative? For Michael Oakeshott: someone who prefers \u201cthe familiar to the unknown\u201d and \u201cpresent laughter to utopian bliss\u201d. For Roger Scruton: someone who wants to protect repositories of shared knowledge \u201crather than pull them down\u201d. But for anyone emerging, bewildered and blinking, from this week\u2019s inaugural CPAC Great Britain, the answer might not have been so clear. After two and a half days of sermons on the fall of the West, and panels with titles like \u201cTaking on the British Deep State\u201d, it was easier to define what this bombastic new brand of conservatism is <em>against<\/em> \u2014 socialism, political Islam, \u201cthe Blob\u201d \u2014 than to glimpse any kind of positive vision.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=536\">Burnham faces an insurgent Britain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a sense, that\u2019s unsurprising. It may have been the brainchild of former prime minister Liz Truss, but the Conservative Political Action Conference is a fundamentally American import, and this week\u2019s gathering in central London borrowed its presentation and language from MAGA and the US Christian Right. Thursday morning began with a prayer session led by Judd Saul, introduced over tannoy as \u201cthe founder of persecuted.com\u201d, who bellowed at attendees still bleary-eyed from the previous night\u2019s World Cup heartbreak that \u201cthe West has turned away from God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent speakers entered to booming beach-club music and flashing overhead lights. Former Reform UK candidate Matt Goodwin started his speech by thanking Donald Trump and JD Vance \u201cfor calling out what is really happening in this country\u201d. Jack Posobiec, an American Right-wing activist, claimed from the stage that \u201cGod has a plan for Donald Trump\u201d, exhorting supporters to \u201crestore God to the very core of Western civilization\u201d. While \u201cGB\u201d might have been tacked on to the end, this was, in spirit if not in scale, CPAC for an American crowd. Attendees were as likely to have come from Palm Beach as Paddington, with US lobbyists enthusiastically discussing how they\u2019d save Britain from destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Amid it all was Truss herself who, having lost her seat at the general election two years ago, has reinvented herself as an American-style culture warrior, appearing at CPACs from Maryland to Texas. Yet whatever her own enthusiasms \u2014 she recently claimed Trump was \u201cright about everything\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s safe to say that the former PM doesn\u2019t command Don-level support. Among most Britons on the Right, she inspires not adulation but a kind of morbid curiosity, like a Victorian circus act which, in place of physical contortions, finds novel ways to blame the \u201cdeep state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At CPAC GB, Truss giddily addressed near-empty rooms in a hotel next to the O2 Arena, taking aim at the \u201csocialists, Marxists, communists, whatever you want to call them, [who] want to destroy our country\u201d. \u201cIt used to be honorable to love your country,\u201d she continued. \u201cNow it\u2019s honorable to love illegal migrants.\u201d Never quite shaking off her much-clipped 2014 \u201cpork markets\u201d speech, Truss still has a habit of shouting the wrong parts of her sentences and grinning at otherwise serious moments. After the \u201cillegal migrants\u201d quip, she took a moment to let the joke land, with the audience remaining largely uncooperative.<\/p>\n<p>That indifference is partly a function of how quickly politics now moves. Truss had already been replaced twice in Downing Street, and with a third new prime minister arriving on Monday, CPAC felt more and more like a sideshow, whatever her claims that Andy Burnham would be turfed out of office before 2029, another victim of \u201c40 years of massive state failure\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, for 25 of those 40 failed years, including Truss\u2019s 50-day tenure, the UK has been governed by the Conservative Party. This isn\u2019t a chink in her argument but a central part of it. The party of which Truss is still a member has, she claimed, been \u201cideologically captured\u201d by \u201cDEI\u201d. Other speakers agreed. According to CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp \u2014 the husband of the gloriously-named Mercedes Schlapp, a one-time Trump official who also spoke at the conference \u2014 the party \u201cdoesn\u2019t deserve the label of \u2018conservative\u2019\u201d. Given all this, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith appeared hopelessly out of place when he spoke about \u201cpost-Brexit regulatory reform\u201d, his earnest suggestions mere filler before the juicy stuff on radical Leftist takeovers.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservatives, then, had no place at the Conservative Political Action Conference. In fact, contempt for the Tories stretched almost as far as hatred of Keir Starmer, and warmer receptions were reserved for Reform UK politicians including Goodwin and Suella Braverman. Kemi Badenoch\u2019s platform, in this telling, is part of the \u201cuniparty\u201d; Nigel Farage and crew are the insurgents who can reverse Britain\u2019s decline. If there was one dominant theme of CPAC GB, it was the pitting of the Right against the liberal-progressive establishment.<\/p>\n<p>This antagonism extended beyond the established political parties to the mainstream press. Truss described the BBC as \u201cbasically state-controlled media, churning out propaganda 24\/7\u201d. She called for a \u201cparallel media\u201d to battle the institutions, given that \u201ca lot of the truth about what\u2019s going on in Britain is suppressed.\u201d Anyone liable to be brainwashed by <em>Adolescence<\/em> should instead \u201cgo on X\u201d and \u201cwatch independent podcasts\u201d. Truss suggested, cadging a phrase from the identitarian Left, that \u201cthey need to educate themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the event, her media enemies were largely absent. Reporters from national papers were in short supply, and the BBC nowhere to be seen. In their place was a new class of correspondent, the \u201ccitizen journalist\u201d or \u201cnewsfluencer\u201d \u2014 young, enterprising content creators on the political Right with names like BasednBougie. They stood a few feet apart from one another in a foyer outside the auditorium, armed with selfie sticks and mini tripod stands and portable lights, speaking into their phones as the remnants of a dying trade looked on. Young Bob, a rising online activist who turned 18 earlier this week, observed that the CPAC attendees \u201care quite old, and they\u2019re the same old people who would consume anything the Right-wing gives.\u201d He described himself not as an influencer but as \u201ca random geezer on the internet\u201d. The parallel media envisioned by Truss has already arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=534\">What \u201cPride\u201d tells us about progressive prejudice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet if CPAC GB is so in tune with this new information landscape, the question remained: where was everyone? In a conference room with roughly 500 seats, most sessions were well under half-full. Pricey tickets might have been a factor \u2014 the priciest ran at \u00a310,000 \u2014\u00a0 giving proceedings the feel of a corporate function rather than a grassroots rally. Ditto the fact that the bulk of the conference took place during the working week. One attendee complained that it \u201cfelt more like an elitist Westminster networking event with flashing lights\u201d and \u201cvery few \u2018normal\u2019 people\u201d. A faultlessly polite American man in his twenties handed me a magazine whose cover piece was titled \u201cConspiracy for global control\u201d. Other articles intriguingly pointed to the \u201cDeep state behind the deep state\u201d and \u201cThe conspiracy against God\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also the possibility that British conservatives are simply spoiled for choice on the jamboree front. CPAC is just one of a constellation of Right-leaning, acronymed conferences to emerge in Britain in recent years, from NatCon to PopCon to ARC \u2014 or, with its own blend of deafening entrance tracks and high camp, there\u2019s always Reform\u2019s annual party conference.<\/p>\n<p>As the event progressed, Farage increasingly felt like the ghost of CPAC future. Each speaker, including ex-Cabinet ministers and former European presidents, felt small compared to him. Truss, too, seemed less statesman than compere, engaging foreign delegates in the intricacies of the Westminster swamp. As for attendees, they seemed bound by admiration for the man they universally called \u201cNigel\u201d. He was booked to appear at 4:30 on Friday afternoon, almost exactly coinciding with the closure for nominations in next month\u2019s Clacton by-election.<\/p>\n<p>When the British Trump finally arrived, the auditorium, sparsely populated until that point, filled almost to capacity. Around two dozen Reform staffers patrolled the edges of the room, as mainstream journalists who\u2019d studiously avoided covering the rest of Truss\u2019s festival descended on Greenwich. An announcer welcomed the man who found himself on the wrong end of \u201ca kangaroo court in Parliament\u201d to a standing ovation several times the volume of anything Truss received.<\/p>\n<p>Scrutiny over his finances has already produced a darker Nigel than the chirpy showman we\u2019re used to; during a tense confrontation earlier this month, he accused Sky News of \u201charassing\u201d his family, later posting online that its reporters were \u201cliars\u201d. Just as Truss did at CPAC, Farage has drawn a dividing line between the political establishment and pliant press on one side, and his own populist revolt on the other. Tensions have risen further following the killing of Reform spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe last week, with some CPAC speakers preparing for battle in response. \u201cThis,\u201d Truss stated bluntly, \u201cis a war\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And, to an extent, Farage\u2019s speech echoed the uncompromising tone that preceded him. Rather than a call for unity on the Right, or a broader celebration of conservative values, Farage delivered what could fairly be described as a Reform party political broadcast. \u201cWe are the dominant force on the Right of British politics,\u201d he announced. \u201cI don\u2019t believe the last Conservative government can ever be forgiven.\u201d More cheers from the crowd. Farage\u2019s speech also came with a New World twang. Comparing his recent financial travails to the US President\u2019s treatment by his political opponents, he claimed he had been \u201cdemonized\u201d by the British establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Yet where Truss and the visiting Americans had positioned the coming fight as rooted in Christianity and \u201cWestern values\u201d, Farage\u2019s focus was ultimately on Britain itself. He was angry that the UK was \u201ca decade away from turning into a third-world country\u201d, and insisted that \u201cwe are engaged in a battle for the very soul of our nation.\u201d Burnham, for his part, was \u201cutterly vacuous\u201d \u2014 the \u201cgreat chameleon of British politics\u201d. Tonally, too, Farage was different. After two days of MAGA playacting, his speech was serious and statesmanlike. He set out a clearer vision of British conservative values than any of the America-brained attempts that came before, praising those \u201cwho actually believe in family, community and country, and decency and democracy and free speech, and putting the national interest first\u201d. The rapturous response only drew greater contrast between his popularity and Truss\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>When I emerged from the scrum which followed Farage\u2019s speech, I saw representatives from the Conservative Party and Rupert Lowe\u2019s Restore Britain in the crowd, as well as Ukip leader Nick Tenconi. The British Right had stayed away for most of CPAC GB, only to gather together for the leader whose celebrity has blocked out all other ideological challengers.<\/p>\n<p>The foyer was almost deserted the next morning, the exhibition stalls for Christian charities and interventionist think tanks untroubled by visitors. We sat through more of Judd Saul\u2019s prayers, and a fireside chat with the Schlapps \u2014 in which Mercedes said she\u2019d cut her daughters out of her will if they \u201cbecome crazy Leftists\u201d \u2014 before Truss closed off the show. \u201cOur country has been taken over by the progressive Blob,\u201d she declared, in case we\u2019d missed it. \u201cAnd we\u2019re only going to be able to fight back by building a movement.\u201d The hall, though, remained largely empty, the real movement on the British Right having left with its leader the previous night. The British fightback may have begun, but Truss\u2019s conservatism is stuck on the wrong side of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=532\">Christopher Nolan: Hollywood\u2019s last hero<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a conservative? 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