THE strapline is “where globalism goes to die.” The Conservative Political Action Conference styles itself as “the largest and most influential gathering of conservatives in the world”. It’s a strange coalition – and not these days a particularly conservative one.

CPAC assembled in Maryland this year, and the cast list seems to consist primarily of economic nationalists, superficially religious authoritarians, cynical panhandlers, cryptofascists, social media edgelords, the indicted-but-pardoned – and diverse other reactionary oddballs, fanboys, and people who spend too long on the internet.

The headline act is inevitably the great terracotta Weeble himself – Donald Trump, the once and future president of the United States – but the British delegation has been expanded from Nigel Farage to the sitting MP for South West Norfolk, one Liz Truss.

Like him, she clearly hopes to make it big across the pond by saying ­stupidly ­reactionary things in public. The track ­record of stilted British politicians ­taking American politics by storm is not ­encouraging – but I guess there’s still plenty of dollars to be picked up along the way.

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One of my favourite details about the gruesome cast is that they include an ­unfrocked bishop who was deprived of his mitre for endorsing the description of Pope Francis as “a diabolically ­disoriented clown” – a description which, as luck would have it, neatly captures a number of those he’s been sharing a platform with, ­including our own Truss.

Footage from the event ­confirms she’s decided to besiege the next stage of her life with the same manic gusto which brought her to her 49-day premiership.

In her renewed mission to “save the West”, fortify her bank balance, and achieve international celebrity on the ­populist right, the People’s Liz has decided to ­explore strange new worlds of political ­reality, ­extending the frontiers of political ­awkwardness by boldly going where no Truss has gone before.

In addition to endorsing Trump and........

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