Dispatches from CPAC Day 1

No Masks Allowed

It is day 2 of CPAC, despite the subheading, and I am sitting in the glorious Gatlin Ballroom at the Rosen Shingle Creek—a place that looks much less like a skin condition in person. It is an infinite 5-star hotel, a complex unto itself. When you catch your Lyft from the [REDACTED] a mile down International Drive, half the drive is getting from the comp…