There were two types of people who attended CPAC in March 2016 and gave Speaker Paul “Omnibus” Ryan (the former chair of the budget, well, actually, non-budget committee) a standing ovation. Type one was the professional political class, the UniParty membership, the GOPe; those who happily welcomed Omnibus and who gleefully ignore the seventh spending of the nearly $1 trillion, “one-time” 2009 stimulus bill. Type two, was those who are overcome with battered conservative syndrome and see nothing wrong with giving thanks to their abuser. One of those attendees was the former partner of GOPe mouthpiece Frank Luntz, and current...