I found my mind wandering repeatedly to Homer Simpson as the “Freedom Conservatives” soldiered dutifully through their conference agenda last week. This is surely the least inspiring panel conversation I’ve ever attended, I would think, and then remind myself—it’s the least inspiring panel conversation so far.
If there was a highlight, it was perhaps the “fireside chat” at lunch with Kay Coles James, president of the Heritage Foundation in the late 2010s, who had apparently intended to dish on that institution’s failings, but changed her mind once onstage. “How do you feel Heritage developed and evolved over that twelve-year period?” asked Avik Roy, the leader of the FreeCon movement, to which James responded, “I have the best poundcake recipe you have ever tasted, and I’m gonna make one for you, and send it to you.”
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