Republicans seethe about Trump at half-empty conservative summit: 'Threat to everything'
Source: Raw Story
February 22, 2026 5:20PM ET
Current and former Republicans seethed about President Donald Trump during a half-empty conservative summit over the weekend, according to reports.
Conservatives organized the sixth annual Principles First summit just outside Washington, D.C., on Saturday and Sunday, an event estimated to draw around 750 attendees, the Associated Press reported. No currently elected Republican official attended the two-day event, which the AP said was about "half empty."
The sparse attendance didn't stop Republicans from bashing the Trump administration and the president's MAGA movement, which one speaker described as "authoritarian-embracing cult," according to the report.
Hes everything our founders feared. Say it. Believe it, Former Republican lawmaker Joe Walsh said, adding that Trump's authoritarian-embracing cult is a threat to everything I love.
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Hugin
(37,710 posts)They need to leave the word principles out of their organizations name. Maybe add the words massage parlor or open bar. But, I will let the republican think tanks handle the messaging. They have been doing so well.
Skittles
(170,521 posts)NOW SUCK IT UP
OldBaldy1701E
(10,839 posts)Bengus81
(10,008 posts)those chicken shit Republicans resign and kick the can down the road.
as you say, they created this monster, but they now see the swastikas on the wall and fear that they will relegated to becoming just plain old americans due to their support of one of the key members of the epstein elite. epstein is still fucking people, but now they are older.
cstanleytech
(28,351 posts)wolfie001
(7,460 posts)Homophobic, racist, hate-filled, religious wack-a-doos. It's been that way since ronald reagan.
no_hypocrisy
(54,672 posts)Roy Rolling
(7,559 posts)Reaching across the aisle works among two honorable opposing sides. When one side is a chameleon and always changing to match the environment, normal opposition fails. Opposition must be unique, humorously enlivening to your side, and attractive enough for opposition to consider out of curiosity. Attachment to come
democrank
(12,468 posts)Elected Republican officials didnt attend .didnt meet the requirement.
poozwah
(408 posts)once they discovered that principle was different from principal, they lost interest.
Kahuna
(27,366 posts)for them to understand it's time for him to go?
Scrivener7
(59,081 posts)before his first administration. And Christie seems to have seen the light after he was rejected by Cankles.
These are conservatives who have rejected trump. I'm sorry it was sparsely attended.
Random Boomer
(4,395 posts)Republicans of good character and principles have left the Republican party entirely. The anti-Trumpers who remain are still grasping (futilely) at power.
orangecrush
(29,599 posts)sop
(18,143 posts)Maybe they'll find their principles this November?
usonian
(24,378 posts)And other things.