This week, D.C. will be split between a group of pro-Trump truckers around the metro area and an ultra-conservative annual event that Trump is very pointedly not invited to but Mitch McConnell is headlining.
. Back in town, the ultra-conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute is organizing its annual World Forum confab, which will be held this weekend down at posh Sea Island, Georgia. The event will feature a constellation of Republican leaders and deep-pocket conservative megadonors, all looking to rub their collective woes together regarding the state of political play.
So what do they want? The whole trucker protest convoy idea began in Canada with a fight against vaccine mandates at the border, but as mandates are rapidly going the way of the dodo, convoy organizers threw wide the doors for any and all far right ultra-nationalist white power super-conspiracy advocates to join in, the fringe of the fringe of the fringe as it were, and the scene got weird at warp speed. Weird, and more than a little ominous.Bouton.