Meanings
CPAC1
plural CPACs · alternative Cpac
- USabbreviationacronymgovernmentAcronym of Conservative Political Action Conference.
CPAC’s organizers vehemently denied any link between the stage design and the Nazi symbology, calling the criticism “outrageous and slanderous.”
2021 March 1, Jaclyn Peiser, “As CPAC dismisses claims that its stage resembled a Nazi insignia, Hyatt calls hate symbols ‘abhorrent’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 Apr 20212 more examples
The White House said earlier Saturday in a statement that it was aware of an individual testing positive for coronavirus after attending the CPAC conference.
2020 March 7, Greg Clary, Raymond Arke, “CPAC attendee tested positive for coronavirus”, in CNN, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2021Trump was speaking at the start of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a rightwing convention that was founded in the US in the early 70s and now calls itself the world’s “most influential gathering of conservatives”.
2024 December 10, Tom Phillips, Facundo Iglesia, “Maga on the River Plate as global populist right descends on Argentina”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2025
Cpac2
- Alternative letter-case form of CPAC (“Conservative Political Action Conference”).
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A week later, Orbán was discussing the theory with American allies at a special meeting of the Conservative Political Action Committee (Cpac), a rightwing American group, in Budapest. Cpac’s chairman, Matt Schlapp, even suggested outlawing abortion as a solution: “If you’re worried about this ‘replacement’, why don’t we start there? Start with allowing our own people to live.”
2022 June 8, Steve Rose, “A deadly ideology: how the ‘great replacement theory’ went mainstream”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2023
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